Update Retropie but not Emulationstation

mathrocks

How do you do that? Is that the same as “updating” within the retropie setup script?

mitu

@mathrocks You can do this from the update script (Update all packages), choose 'Yes' when it asks about updating the OS underlying packages.
The commands I mentioned can be run this from the command line. If you have a keyboard, just exit Emulationstation (F4 or through the menu) and then execute them. You can also run the commands through a command line via SSH.

mathrocks

@mitu

Sorry, I see you posted the commands. I just entered those two prompts and updated. I received well over a page of failed updates after the second prompt. I still tried reinstalling emulationstation and receive the same errors as as previously.

mitu

@mathrocks said in Update Retropie but not Emulationstation:

I received well over a page of failed updates after the second prompt

That's probably the reason why updating ES doesn't work, since the dependencies are not properly downloaded and installed. Can you use SSH to run the commands and them paste the errors on pastebin.com ?

You didn't give any clues about your system - https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first - how did you install you system ?

mathrocks

@mitu

After performing sudo apt-get update I received W: Failed to fetch http://dl.binary.com/pipplware/fists/Jessie/main/binary/ ./Packages 403 forbidden and the same for ...Jessie/armv7/binary/ .packages

mathrocks

@mitu

I’m sorry, I may be well in over my head because I don’t know what ssh is. I installed my system about a year ago from downloading retropie off the blog from the retropie site.

mitu

@mathrocks said in Update Retropie but not Emulationstation:

W: Failed to fetch http://dl.binary.com/pipplware/fists/Jessie/main/binary/ ./Packages 403 forbidden

That's the URL for the an older Kodi repository, which is now unavailable, hence the errors. Try to reinstall Kodi from the RetroPie setup script and see if these errors go away.

mathrocks

@mitu

Thank you so much to you and JohnnyKesh! This resolved the issue and I was able to reinstall emulationstation. It installed v2.7.4rp! So it must have been the old Kodi that was installed ? Thank you!

mitu

@mathrocks said in Update Retropie but not Emulationstation:

So it must have been the old Kodi that was installed ?

The 'old' Kodi installation added a software repository to your software sources, but since that repository disappeared, it produced errors in your software installation.

Now you can enjoy the new Emulationstation goodies and your updates should be ok. Happy New Year !

mathrocks

@mitu

That is awesome and there are some great new features!