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    • MileSaculM
      MileSacul
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      Hi All,

      I just got my Raspberry Pi. I already installed Raspbian Jessie and want to add RetoPie to it.

      Now for my whole Pi configuration, I am developing a chef script that will allow me to just run a cookbook and my Pi will be configured based on a template.

      I learned about RetroPie, I thought it would be a great addition to my scripts. When following the instructions for RetroPie's Manual Installation, I found that it requires a shell GUI, which won't work well with Chef.

      Is there any way to configure RetroPie without the gui? I noticed in retropie_setup.sh that you call this:

      "$scriptdir/retropie_packages.sh" setup gui

      Is there a non-gui version I can run? Perhaps one that takes a properties file for all of the options.

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      • herb_fargusH
        herb_fargus administrators @MileSacul
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        @milesacul the gui just calls retropie packages so you can just run ./retropie-packages.sh modulename for each module you want installed and configured

        If you read the documentation it will answer 99% of your questions: https://retropie.org.uk/docs/

        Also if you want a solution to your problems read this first: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

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          • MileSaculM
            MileSacul @herb_fargus
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            @herb_fargus Is there any way to install from binary? When I run ./retropie-packages.sh emulationstation it runs out of resources during the build process.

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            • herb_fargusH
              herb_fargus administrators @MileSacul
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              @milesacul update your setup script first, that issue was fixed recently, I don't know about it but I'm sure that there is probably a flag for installing the binary, I'm not familiar enough with the codebase to know exactly what it would be. maybe install_bin

              If you read the documentation it will answer 99% of your questions: https://retropie.org.uk/docs/

              Also if you want a solution to your problems read this first: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

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              • MileSaculM
                MileSacul @herb_fargus
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                @herb_fargus install_bin worked. Now I am trying to figure out what "packages" include install_bin. Currently, I just run the install_bin for all of them and if one fails, I switch it to "install" or just "package_name" I noticed that some have function install_bin_"package"() that I can search for, but some of them work, but don't have that available.
                This is enough to get me started if you want to mark this as solved.

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                • MileSaculM
                  MileSacul @MileSacul
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                  @milesacul Sorry if this topic is becoming spam. Got some progress. If there is no defined install_bin_$id function, you use wget --spider -q "$__binary_url/${__mod_type[$idx]}/${__mod_id[$idx]}.tar.gz" to try to pull the binary. For now, I will check if the file exists with the same method and maybe work a better solution into RetroPie shell scripts afterward.

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