@joelf said in What stops the update retropie script???:

How do I tell this thing to stop trying to update?!?

The setup script will automatically try to download missing packages if they're not present, so deleting packages.sh will not help. The 'update' you're experiencing is built-in the setup script.

If you know which version you had before the update, just rewind the RetroPie-Setup script at that version using git.

cd $HOME/RetroPie-Setup git fetch --tags # print the release tags git tag # Checkout a specific version git checkout <tag>