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Aloshi / EmulationStation

A flexible emulator front-end supporting keyboardless navigation and custom system themes.
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Continue development of EmulationStation. #780

Open aaronfranke opened 5 years ago

aaronfranke commented 5 years ago

There have only been 3 commits in the past 2 years. Please update EmulationStation! It doesn't install on Ubuntu 18.04 due to many conflicting packages.

A snap or AppImage package is also an option.

probonopd commented 5 years ago

Let me know if you'd like some assistance in making an AppImage version @Aloshi

robertybob commented 5 years ago

@aaronfranke use the Retropie version?

aaronfranke commented 5 years ago

I have that for my Pi but I'd also like to install ES on my x86 Ubuntu laptop.

terzag commented 5 years ago

There have only been 3 commits in the past 2 years. Please update EmulationStation! It doesn't install on Ubuntu 18.04 due to many conflicting packages.

A snap or AppImage package is also an option.

The deb package available is quite old and it would be great to have support fir current distros but in the meantime, all the dependencies are still in the repos (they just changed version and name) and it's easily fixable.

Download the deb, extract it somewhere, go in the DEBIAN subdir and edit the control file. Replace the original dependencies list by that one (for Ubuntu 18.04):

Depends: libasound2 (>= 1.0.16), libboost-filesystem1.65.0, libboost-locale1.65.0, libboost-system1.65.0, libc6 (>= 2.14), libcurl4 (>= 7.16.2), libfreeimage3, libfreetype6 (>= 2.2.1), libgcc1 (>= 1:4.1.1), libgl1-mesa-glx | libgl1, libsdl2-2.0-0 (>= 2.0.0), libstdc++6 (>= 4.6), fonts-droid-fallback

On Ubuntu 18.10, same list but the libboost packages are at 1.67.0 instead of 1.65.0.

When it's done, delete the original .deb, open a terminal, cd to the dir where you've extracted it and rebuild the package (install the fakeroot and dpkg packages before if they're not):

fakeroot dpkg-deb -b emulationstation_amd64_latest

aaronfranke commented 5 years ago

and it's easily fixable.

This is something that the EmulationStation devs should do then.

probonopd commented 5 years ago

Here is an AppImage I have generated from the deb ingredients:

https://bintray.com/probono/AppImages/EmulationStation#files

Here is the recipe that produced it:

https://github.com/AppImage/AppImages/blob/c4fb1e02c17b92ae7db073e339e36cb2120bda23/recipes/EmulationStation.yml

I tested the resuting AppImage on Xubuntu 18.04.

terzag commented 5 years ago

and it's easily fixable.

This is something that the EmulationStation devs should do then.

Yes, but the project doesn't seem to be that active and maybe they don't have the resources to maintain deb packages anymore (it's available as a bonus anyway, it's usually the job of distros maintainers to provide specific packages). So, if you don't want to wait for an eventual updated deb, you can follow my instructions to build one that installs fine.

probonopd commented 5 years ago

If someone with commit rights in this repository is interested, we can make automatic continuous AppImage builds on Travis CI right from the source - without Debian packaging. Would be much simpler than making debs and converting them to AppImage.

robertybob commented 5 years ago

@aaronfranke you can install RetroPie on Ubuntu ....

terzag commented 5 years ago

@aaronfranke you can install RetroPie on Ubuntu ....

Is it available as an app you can start from the desktop or does it work only as a full/dedicated session?