@dbrown1986 said in Running Rpi on a Ubuntu terminal...:
As it stands, I've attempted this but the terminal reports ES cannot start without a graphics driver (even when gnome and Nvidia drivers had been installed but disabled in favor of the terminal).
Yes, the drivers you installed work with X.org.
Ideally, what I'd like to do is to install only a terminal, apt-get only what I need and autoboot into ES on boot.
The RetroPie installation script should already do that - auto-login via the current DM and starting Emulationstation into an X.org session.
Is this feasible?
Not without X.org at the moment.