What dependencies does retropie have?
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I'm converting an older chromebox (not book) to run retropie. At some point I upgraded the ram to 8gb but the hard-drive still sits at 16gb. Given that I've got limited disk-space I'm wondering what the minimum dependencies for getting retropie up and running are. Clearly I dont need Libreoffice and such. Do I need X and some sort of desktop environment or wil l that get installed as a dependency when I set up retropie?
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On a PC, RetroPie will need an X server to run and you should have that functioning before starting the installation.
The dependencies are just a few small packages (libSDL mainly and a few other libs) and on a straight Ubuntu install the base RetroPie install should be less then 800 Mb. However, since installation on a PC will compile everything, quite a few-devpackages will be installed (mostly X related) and take space during the installation itself - you can remove them after installation is finished.
If you add more emulators, the RetroPie installation might take more space, but not considerably. I expect the ROM folder and the scraped artwork (video/images) to take (a lot) more than a RetroPie install. If you managed to get your base installation under 5 GB, I think the installation to be fine and still have space to spare. Make sure you have a supported distro - Debian/Ubuntu.
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