Any timeline for Trixie support?

miken32

By some weird stroke of luck, my new Raspberry Pi 5 arrived this morning and I flashed it with the imager app, unaware that I was installing a 4 hour old OS 😭

Does anyone know if there are any plans for Trixie to be supported imminently or should I disassemble this thing and reflash the drive with Bookworm?

mitu

Unless you'd want to install the desktop part, you can keep Trixie. Officially, we're not even fully supporting Bookworm, but manual installation should work.

DTEAM

@miken32

You don't need Trixie for now. MESA Bookworm-backports and Trixie (stable) propose the same MESA version. see here

To install MESA via bookworm-backport, you can follow this (post#4):
https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/36907/solved-installing-mesa-packages-from-backports-did-not-find-extension-dri_mesa-version-1/4?_=1759500997496

miken32

@mitu thanks for the tip. The installation went mostly well, I guess I will see how games play on the weekend.

Only issue I had is that Dolphin would not build for me:

First, the script at ~/RetroPie-Setup/scriptmodules/emulators/dolphin.sh requires libmbedtls-dev but (at least on Trixie) the version is too new for the Dolphin codebase (it goes looking for header files that don't exist any more.) I edited out this requirement from dolphin.sh and did

apt remove libmbedtls-dev libmbedtls21 libmbedx509-7

Then it proceeded using its bundled version. This package should probably not be a requirement since they have a bundled version.

Then it got to about 90% where it failed again. I worked around that by commenting out line 275 in ~/RetroPie-Setup/tmp/build/lr-dolphin/Source/Core/Core/IOS/FS/FileSystemProxy.cpp. Hooray for basic debugging skills that work even in a completely foreign language!