No module named evdev

[Jackslayerr]

I’ve been trying to get GPIOnext working for hours and when I try to configure GPIOnext it says there’s no module names evdev. I’ve seen the issue posted multiple times in this project but I tried everything from all of them to try to fix this but nothing works. A couple things I’ve noticed was that while downloading something it said there was a error 404 link for the and that I was missing some things. I’ve also seen some people say a stock retropie version works, is that just an older version? Because I tried to use and older version but it didn’t work.

[merwok]

while downloading something it said there was a error 404 link

I was missing some things

Please give useful details to make bug reports actionable! What commands you types, what full error message you got.

[Jackslayerr]

while downloading something it said there was a error 404 link

I was missing some things

Please give useful details to make bug reports actionable! What commands you types, what full error message you got.

Thanks for the Reply! I got the error running the command “sudo apt install python-pip” in an attempt to fix the issue. Here’s the output, towards the bottom is where it gives me the 404 error

[merwok]

Have you tried one of the two suggestions in the last line of the error message?

[Jackslayerr]

The first suggestion didn’t do anything because apparently my access was denied and I didn’t understand the second suggestion.

[merwok]

You have to run system administration commands as root (using sudo)

[Jackslayerr]

Ok that time it worked (Sorry I’m a bit a new to this stuff) I’m still getting that 404 message when trying to install python. What was the second suggestion?

[merwok]

Can you show that error message?

[Jackslayerr]

Can you show that error message?

[merwok]

Actually, there is an install.sh script in this repo that does apt update and more — can you use it?

[Jackslayerr]

Actually, there is an install.sh script in this repo that does apt update and more — can you use it?

I thought I tried it but what’s the command?

[merwok]

It is an executable script, so ./install.sh

[Jackslayerr]

This is what I got

[merwok]

It’s in the gpionext repository, so you have to run that command from your clone of it Follow https://github.com/mholgatem/GPIOnext#how-to-install

[Jackslayerr]

It’s in the gpionext repository, so you have to run that command from your clone of it Follow https://github.com/mholgatem/GPIOnext#how-to-install

I’ve tried everything but still nothing. I heard someone say they just got a stock version of Retropie. What other image could I get?

[Jackslayerr]

So I was able to finally get it working. I went and updated Retropie within the OS and a bunch of stuff downloaded and I tried GPIOnext again and it worked! I hope I helped other people with this issue.

[mholgatem]

Hey, I'm glad that you were able to get it working. Sorry I was unavailable for the last week.

For anyone that comes across this problem in the future, my guess would be that the Debian/Ubuntu distribution that your retropie image used was old. Ubuntu gives it's releases a shelf life. After that, it migrates its packages to a new location to ensure that you aren't mixing old releases with new. You can typically fix this by updating the current distribution using the following command:

sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

or you can update your packages list with the new sources by editing:

/etc/apt/sources.list

Happy Gaming!

[naenaejeff]

its not working for me, and that file is read only, im not sure how to edit it? any help?

[merwok]

To get help, you need to say what you did (copy the exact command) and what you got (copy the full error message) Otherwise you are asking for mind reading 😅