Retropie Ubuntu 16.04 could not successfull install EmulationStation

PIHACKER

I tried to install Retropie on my Ubuntu 16.04 laptop and am facing an issue while installing EmulationStation. The error I'm getting is "could not successfully install EmulationStation - Frontend used by Retropie for launching emulators (home/user/Retropie-Setup/tmp/build/emulationstation/ resources not found)". I checked a couple threads of people suffering from the same problem, And the issue in most cases is a memory related one. I have enough memory (roughly 70+GB) to install the retropie system, But the build still fails for me. Does anyone know why this issue seems to be occuring? The exact log for the issue is as follows:

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Installing 'emulationstation' : EmulationStation - Frontend used by RetroPie for launching emulators
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'/home/user/RetroPie-Setup/tmp/build/emulationstation/CREDITS.md' -> '/opt/retropie/supplementary/emulationstation/CREDITS.md'
'/home/user/RetroPie-Setup/tmp/build/emulationstation/emulationstation' -> '/opt/retropie/supplementary/emulationstation/emulationstation'
'/home/user/RetroPie-Setup/tmp/build/emulationstation/emulationstation.sh' -> '/opt/retropie/supplementary/emulationstation/emulationstation.sh'
'/home/user/RetroPie-Setup/tmp/build/emulationstation/GAMELISTS.md' -> '/opt/retropie/supplementary/emulationstation/GAMELISTS.md'
'/home/user/RetroPie-Setup/tmp/build/emulationstation/README.md' -> '/opt/retropie/supplementary/emulationstation/README.md'
~/RetroPie-Setup
Could not successfully install EmulationStation - Frontend used by RetroPie for launching emulators (/home/user/RetroPie-Setup/tmp/build/emulationstation/resources not found).

mitu

It's not a memory issue, 16.04 is not supported anymore as an install target by the ES scriptmodule.

PIHACKER

@mitu Is there any way to overcome this issue? I don't want to upgrade my Ubuntu version just to resolve this issue.

mitu

@PIHACKER Modify the scriptmodule and change the source branch from 2.7.6 to stable.

PIHACKER

@mitu Thanks a lot for the quick response. I am trying to locate the script module for ES and am not able to locate it. Can you share the location of the file?

mitu

The install script for Emulationstation is in $HOME/RetroPie-Setup/scriptmodules/supplementary/emulationstation.sh.

PIHACKER

I found the file, But there is no mention of the source branch version in the file. (https://pastebin.com/N0PfQ18s)

mitu

@PIHACKER That's not the file I mentioned.

PIHACKER

There is only one shell script in the supplementary directory called inputconfiguration.sh. There does not seem to be any other script file. I apologize for being too naive about this, Its my first time setting up the retropie

PIHACKER

My bad, Found it. Will let you know after I build it. Thanks a lot for the help!

PIHACKER

I got another issue while trying to run the retropie_setup script. The error that I am getting is the same as the error mentioned in this thread (https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/21175/went-back-to-stable-es-branch-from-dev-trying-to-use-internal-scraper-now-results-in-crash-also-cannot-install-dev-from-source-anymore). Is there any solution for this in the new releases?

mitu

@PIHACKER Your distro is missing the rapidjson-dev package, the reason why this version is not installing on 16.04. Try this workaround.

PIHACKER

That worked for me! Thanks a lot!