Retropie on Raspbian Buster

geekinchief

Is there a way yet to install Retropie on Buster? I tried the manual installation instructions on github, but it failed.

mitu

@geekinchief Which one ? Debian or Raspbian ? What is the error ?

hhromic

@geekinchief I'm also curious about where/how did you get Raspbian Buster (if what your original post said is correct).

dankcushions

https://wiki.debian.org/RaspberryPi3

doesn't seem to be much point in using it as far as retropie goes, but i suppose a new version of GCC might bring some subtle improvements on source builds.

hhromic

@dankcushions that distribution is not Raspbian but plain Debian, and indeed is very experimental at the moment. For instance it focus on using the opensource VC driver. Also it seems to be only for RPI 3 models, i.e. arm64 binaries.

The foundation is also working on Raspbian Buster internally but of course is not public afaik, hence why I'm asking if he is using that or which distribution. Debian Buster itself is scheduled to be released very soon (first weeks of July), so I hope the foundation plans to release Raspbian Buster soon after.

geekinchief

The "very experimental" one. Nothing official.

mitu

Well, now that Raspbian has released a Buster version, I've gave it a try and a basic installation seems to build fine, except for mupen64plus.

geekinchief

@mitu How did you do it exactly? I had tried and failed before.

mitu

@geekinchief Using the manual installation instructions from the Docs.

geekinchief

@mitu I had tried that a few days ago and it failed. I'll try again.

hhromic

@geekinchief just to clarify, @mitu refers to the newly released (yesterday!) official Raspbian Buster from the foundation, not any of the experimental images. Get it from the RPI website.

mitu

@geekinchief Without any logs, it's hard to diagnose what's the problem. As @hhromic said, use the newly released image when trying to install RetroPie. Please provide any error messages/logs if you want assistance, just saying 'it failed' it's not going to help.

quicksilver

@mitu were you able to build lr-mupen64plus-next? Slightly off topic but I supposed with the release of the pi 4, the mupen64plus.sh file will need to be re-examined and modified. Im not sure that the resolution will still need to be locked to 320x240 anymore for gliden64 (hopefully) and the blacklist will need to be re-examined as well. Though I think its primarily Gizmo that maintains it, if hes still around.

mitu

@quicksilver No, I only have tried the basic install (which installs only the main and optional sections). Since it took a while, I just left it overnight on a 3B+ system and checked in the morning for errors.
I'll give lr-mupen64plus-next a try later this evening, I just want to see if a quick fix is available for mupen64plus.

EDIT: heh, it looks like the error is already reported ~~upstream~~ - https://github.com/ricrpi/mupen64plus-video-gles2n64/issues/25.

geekinchief

I am getting this error message upon completion of the install:

mitu

@geekinchief Yes, I think I got the same messages, but since the building of packages (except one) was successful, I just treated them as warnings.

libavdevice-dev has a hard dependency on libsdl-2.0.9 (required by retroarch) and it fails installation.
libusb-1.0-0-dev is installable, we'll have to see why it's not installed (required by retroarch, dolphin and xboxdrv
libxkbcommon-dev is installable, similar like before (required by retroarch).

EDIT: I see now that retroarch is not installed because of this, somehow I missed it in the log. Excluding libavdevice-dev from the dependencies makes the compilation work, probably with disabled recording capabilities.

mitu

@quicksilver lr-mupen64plus-next builds fine, I just loaded 007 to test (ran horribly) and it loaded ok.

quicksilver

@mitu Yea, that game doesnt run well using lr-mupen64plus-next on my overclocked 3b+ either. Im hopefully getting a pi 4 this friday, if my microcenter near me gets some in stock and will try to test then on the new hardware.

geekinchief

@mitu How do I exclude libavdevice-dev?

mitu

@geekinchief Update your RetroPie-Setup script and try again to build RetroArch.