Can’t get lr-mame2003-plus to install

PhoenixFlood

Good evening,

I’m having difficulty getting lr-mame2003-plus to install.

I’m on a Pi 3 B. Retropie 4.4. Updated setup script to 4.4.4. 32 gb card with 6gb avail.

The issue I’m having is that once the install begins it just scrolls and scrolls data infinitely. Too fast to catch. Stops for extremely short periods. When it does I’m able to make some of it out but not much.

I’ve left it going for hours but it seems to be stuck in an endless loop. Forcing me to reboot it by pulling the power.

As such it doesn’t give me an install log. There is one but gunzip won’t open because of an unexpected end of file error.

I’ve done various usb configs as well. A dell usb keyboard and without. A usb snes pad and without. In different ports.

Same result.

Any tips on what next would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you!
Phoenix

quicksilver

@PhoenixFlood are you installing from source? If so it can potentially take hours and hours. As long as that "text" is still scrolling on the screen just leave it be. Maybe set it to install overnight and check on it in the morning.

ByteThis

@quicksilver said in Can’t get lr-mame2003-plus to install:

@PhoenixFlood are you installing from source? If so it can potentially take hours and hours. As long as that "text" is still scrolling on the screen just leave it be. Maybe set it to install overnight and check on it in the morning.

Great info. Just to add don't pull the plug ( or reboot via SSH ) if you get impatient as sometimes other problems arise of you interrupt the process.

PhoenixFlood

@quicksilver said in Can’t get lr-mame2003-plus to install:

@PhoenixFlood are you installing from source? If so it can potentially take hours and hours. As long as that "text" is still scrolling on the screen just leave it be. Maybe set it to install overnight and check on it in the morning.

Yes installing from source is the only option. No binary option.

Thank you for the advice. I will definitly do that and report back.

I wouldn’t expect it to take that long as most other packages have installed rather quickly.

Thanks for the quick reply.

grant2258

It know to get issues compiling like you are when overclocking is on if it is on turn it off.

mitu

@PhoenixFlood Installation from souce will take considerably longer than a normal 'from binary installation'. I wouldn't be surprises if it took more than 1 hour. If you don't want to be logged on the PI while it's compiling, you can use screen to leave yor login session running and log off the PI while it's compiling.

GNU Screen.

EDIT: for the record, on a Raspberry PI 3b, with a stock Retroie 4.4.x installaton, it took about 24 min to compile from source.