PCSX2 on ubuntu 19.10 - sdl2 downgrade no longer an option?

sabrecheeky

Hello! I have retropie on a i5 intel NUC, with ubuntu budgie 19.04, running beautifully including PCSX2. I remember being given the option to 'downgrade' the sdl2 to stock, rather than use the modified retropie version, when I set it up as PCSX2 needed it.

I now have another little NUC that I'm trying to set up the same way, but the PCSX installation fails on trying to install package 'libsdl2-dev:i386'. I've tried different versions of ubuntu budgie, but always the same error. Both NUC's are running 64bit versions of ubuntu budgie.

dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libmirclient-dev:i386:
 libmirclient-dev:amd64 (1.4.0-0ubuntu3) breaks libmirclientcpp-dev and is installed.
  libmirclient-dev:i386 (1.4.0-0ubuntu3) provides libmirclientcpp-dev.

dpkg: error processing package libmirclient-dev:i386 (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libsdl2-dev:i386:
 libsdl2-dev:i386 depends on libmirclient-dev; however:
  Package libmirclient-dev:i386 is not configured yet.

dpkg: error processing package libsdl2-dev:i386 (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
No apport report written because the error message indicates its a followup error from a previous failure.
No apport report written because the error message indicates its a followup error from a previous failure.
Errors were encountered while processing:
 libmirclient-dev:i386
 libsdl2-dev:i386
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
Could not install package(s): libsdl2-dev:i386.

Log ended at: Sat  9 Nov 22:36:48 GMT 2019
Total running time: 0 hours, 0 mins, 6 secs

Any ideas?!?

mitu

@sabrecheeky said in PCSX2 on ubuntu 19.10 - sdl2 downgrade no longer an option?:

ubuntu budgie

This seems like a problem with the recent changes to the pcsx2 emulator's installation procedure. There's a conflict between some of the 32bit/64bit packages and some of them are not installable with apt.

EDIT: looks like this bug in particular.

BuZz

@mitu yeah looks like another packaging bug. (The downgrading was also due to this - ffmpeg libs depending on specific sdl2 version which is wrong imho).

I can add back the downgrading but it's a shame as I hoped that wouldn't be needed now. Will look into it.

BuZz

Actually the downgrading was to switch to Ubuntu sdl2 to avoid it. So that won't fix this case. Hmm.

mitu

@sabrecheeky Can you update your RetroPie-Setup script and then try again installing pcsx2 ?

sabrecheeky

Thanks for the replies!

@mitu I tried again as suggested, but still get an error, this time saying it failed to downgrade.

Log started at: Sun 10 Nov 11:10:04 GMT 2019

RetroPie-Setup version: 4.5.2 (9a09d9b)
System: Ubuntu 19.10 - Linux s***-*******ka 5.3.0-19-generic #20-Ubuntu SMP Fri Oct 18 09:04:39 UTC 2019 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

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Installing dependencies for 'pcsx2' : PS2 emulator PCSX2
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chown: cannot access '/opt/retropie/configs/all/retropie.cfg': No such file or directory

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Running action 'revert' for 'sdl2' : SDL (Simple DirectMedia Layer) v2.x
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Failed to install PS2 emulator PCSX2

Log ended at: Sun 10 Nov 11:10:28 GMT 2019
Total running time: 0 hours, 0 mins, 24 secs

Should I try to reinstall the OS in case something has been broken along the way?!?

mitu

Remove the libmirclient-dev:i386 and libsdl2-dev:i386 packages manually and try again. You seem to be running on 19.10 now, not on 19.04 as you reported.

sabrecheeky

Ah, sorry... My first (successful) machine still runs 19.04 - I have been trying different versions in the new machine to see if it helped. 19.10 just so happened to be where the music stopped!

Thanks loads - it appears to have successfully installed! I will set it up now and see if I can get games running.

Thanks loads again - this is such a great community.

sabrecheeky

Managed to get pcsx2 to install fine, but I can't get it to run from inside Retropie/emulationstation... I get this error:

Parameters: 
Executing: /opt/retropie/emulators/pcsx2/bin/PCSX2 "/home/scot/RetroPie/roms/ps2/Okami.iso" --windowed
/opt/retropie/supplementary/runcommand/runcommand.sh: line 1006: /opt/retropie/emulators/pcsx2/bin/PCSX2: No such file or directory

It runs from the desktop fine... possibly an error in the runcommand.sh?!?

mitu

@sabrecheeky said in PCSX2 on ubuntu 19.10 - sdl2 downgrade no longer an option?:

It runs from the desktop fine... possibly an error in the runcommand.sh?!?

No, just a bug in the install script :(. You can open /opt/retropie/configs/pcsx2/emulators.cfg and replace the buggy path with /usr/games/PCSX2 and see if it works.

sabrecheeky

All good! Sorted out the .cfg as suggested, and it all works great. Thanks again for all of your help with this!