After updating to Xubuntu 22.10 games don't work anymore

MrPacMan17

After updating to Xubuntu 22.10 RetroPie doesn't work anymore.

ES starts just fine but every game doesn't launch. This what verbose logging tells me: '.../opt/retropie/emulators/retroarch/bin/retroarch: error while loading shared libraries: libswscale.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory...'

So I have reinstalled all core components but to no avail. Also I updated all other components but still no luck.

Any advice/ideas are welcome. Many thanks in advance.

Cheers,
Marnix

PS: I run RetroPie on a x86 computer with Xubuntu. All of RetroPie is of the latest version, 4.8.

mitu

Did retroarch re-install ok ? I think on 22.10 the newer ffmpeg packages don't get along with the version that RetroPie installs (1.10).

MrPacMan17

@mitu I think not. Will try it again.

MrPacMan17

@mitu Tried a re-install but I got this error at the end:

Could not successfully build retroarch - RetroArch - frontend to the libretro emulator cores - required by all lr- emulators. (/home/retrogamer/RetroPie-Setup/tmp/build/retroarch/retroarch not found)*

MrPacMan17

@mitu See the whole log file here: https://pastebin.com/91bbTKt2

mitu

Yes, that was expected. Until RetroArch 1.12.0 gets added to RetroPie (there's a PR for that), the current version will fail to build.
What you can do right now is modify the retroarch script and disable ffmpeg. In $HOME/RetroPie-Setup/scriptmodules/emulators/retroarch.sh, line 40, add --disable-ffmpeg to the existing build parameters. Re-install again retroarch from RetroPie-Setup and it should finish building.

MrPacMan17

@mitu Woohooo! It worked! RetroArch has re-installed successfully AND all the games are working again.

Thanks a lot for your fast answer and solution. Much appreciated. Was already preparing for a full re-install of the platform (22.04 version of Xubuntu).

But your advice saved me a lot of work, awesome!

MrPacMan17

@mitu A quick question about the PR, any idea when there will be a CR and when the integration will take place? Just curious, don’t want to put any kind of pressure on the developers here.

mitu

@MrPacMan17 it's merged now, so you can back-out the changes to the retroarch.sh script and update RetroPie-Setup as usual.

MrPacMan17

@mitu I just backed-out the changes and updated RetroArch which went fine indeed. A BIG thanks for your support.