Install on Debian unstable

MoonKid

I tried the retropie_setup.sh script to install RetroPi on a Debian unstable PC.

At the beginning there is a dpkg-Warning about the wrong version number "unstable". It seems like that the script doesn't parse the version number correctly. I am also not sure why the scripts needs the version number at all.

I can not find in the script where ${Version} is parsed.

mitu

@moonkid said in Install on Debian unstable:

It seems like that the script doesn't parse the version number correctly.

Which is the version number exactly ?

MoonKid

I don't know how your script ask for "version number". Please tell me so I can post the output.

What I can tell you
$ uname -a
Linux TONNE 4.18.5-towo.1-siduction-amd64 #1 SMP siduction 4.18-5 (2018-08-24) x86_64 GNU/Linux

mitu

@moonkid said in Install on Debian unstable:

I don't know how your script ask for "version number".

It's not my script, it's part of the RetroPie setup package. What's the output of /etc/debian_version ?

MoonKid

$ cat /etc/debian_version
buster/sid

mitu

@moonkid There's your answer. The same is reported on an Ubuntu 18.04, but the installation works fine there.

MoonKid

I don't understand.

mitu

@moonkid Please post the complete error you get when installing.

EDIT: Add also the output of lsb_release -sidrc.

MoonKid

Debian
Debian GNU/Linux unstable (sid)
unstable
sid

mitu

@moonkid Well, the RetroPie-Setup script checks the version reported by the command above and since there is no number there, it will fail to detect the correct OS version (which obviously - doesn't exist for sid).For reference, this is what's shown on Debian Stretch

lsb_release -sidrc
Debian
Debian GNU/Linux 9.5 (stretch)
9.5
stretch

You can see how the RetroPie-Setup script checks for the OS version in https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/blob/master/scriptmodules/system.sh.

BuZz

Replace system.sh with this http://malus.exotica.org.uk/~buzz/system.sh and let me know if it works for you. Note that retropie-setup is not tested on Debian unstable, so some things may not build or run properly.