Emulationstation core package won't build due to vlc-nox

silica_in_my_eye

I've installed Retropie onto an Ubuntu installation (PC is an AMD A10-5800), following the guide (https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/Debian).

Everything has installed except the core package emulationstation, which needed some other dependencies. I have all of these installed now except for vlc-nox, this seems to be the only thing stopping emulationstation from building now.

vlc-nox is not in the ubuntu repository (can't install via apt-get, and not int eh software manager). When I search for the package it's listed as a transitional dummy package, and the .deb gives a 0kb file that cannot be installed.

Any help please?

mitu

What Ubuntu version are you using ? The package should be install-able via apt-get install vlc-nox and I see that the latest version is available at http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/v/vlc/vlc-nox_2.2.4-14ubuntu2.2_amd64.deb . Are you sure you didn't mess up something in your repositories ?

As a workaround, you could edit the RetroPie-Setup/scriptmodules/supplementary/emulationstation.sh and remove the vlc-nox dependency from the depends_ emulationstation function, see here:
https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/blob/ad127db300f3a9912886608faeb2fcc478db0d06/scriptmodules/supplementary/emulationstation.sh#L124

silica_in_my_eye

Fresh install of 17.04 - retropie is the only thing I have installed after Ubuntu, and then a few dependencies that emulationstation was having a whinge about.

That workaround did the trick, but I'm sure if even this hasn't even gone smoothly I'm in for a million more problems.

dpkg won't install the vlc-nox .deb because vlc-bin and vlc-plugin-base are already 2.2.6-6
The newest vlc-nox I can find is 2.2.6-1 (in a debian repo), and it also won't go. Even the Arch aur only has 2.2.6-1 and they're never behind in version numbers.
Is something going on with vlc-nox not being updated or am I an idiot

BuZz

Package is removed on my 17.10 Ubuntu - need to update the module to change dependency to just vlc. Should be ok on 17.04 though - you definitely not using the latest beta of Ubuntu?