retropie on linux mint?

[TwilightLink]

Hi!

 

Has anyone tried retropie running on mint? I have an old pc (it's running mint 19.3 currently) that i want to use as an emulation machine, and I found that retropie was a good option, but I never used it, I know that people use it on raspberry pie.

 

Are the emulators good? Can it be installed from the sofware manager?

Thank you!

[mahyar]

you can use retro arch 

[Eigenvektor]

Should be possibe: https://retropie.org.uk/

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The RetroPie SD image is built on top of Raspbian but RetroPie can be installed on any Debian based linux distribution.

Mint is built on top of Ubuntu, which is built on top of Debian, so I suppose it should work. No idea if Mint's repos contain it.

[mahyar]

2 minutes ago, Eigenvektor said:

Should be possibe: https://retropie.org.uk/

Mint is built on top of Ubuntu, which is built on top of Debian, so I suppose it should work. No idea if Mint's repos contain it.

well i dont think it works because from debian to mint there are a lot of changes 

[TwilightLink]

Thanks for the answers!

 

5 minutes ago, mahyar said:

you can use retro arch 

I thought that retropie contained that, is it better to use it stand alone?

 

5 minutes ago, Eigenvektor said:

Should be possibe: https://retropie.org.uk/

Mint is built on top of Ubuntu, which is built on top of Debian, so I suppose it should work. No idea if Mint's repos contain it.

Yeah, I was looking at the instructions there, but i wanted to be sure before trying anything, haven't installed anything through the console yet

 

[mahyar]

i did some more research i seems like there are some patches and thing that you can run retro pi on mint !

[TwilightLink]

7 minutes ago, mahyar said:

i did some more research i seems like there are some patches and thing that you can run retro pi on mint !

Awesome, then I can try installing later and the report here, I hope I can make it work

[TwilightLink]

On 8/10/2020 at 2:24 AM, TwilightLink said:

Awesome, then I can try installing later and the report here, I hope I can make it work

Update: I installed following the instructions at retropie's website and it works great on linux mint

 

Thank everyone for the answers!

[P13t3r]

I am running Linux Mint 21.2 Cinnamon, and am trying to install RetroPie.

Started out well, but I keep getting the issue that RetroArch won't build, with this in the log:  

 

/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lEGL: No such file or directory collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status make: *** [Makefile:204: retroarch] Error 1 Could not successfully build retroarch - RetroArch - frontend to the libretro emulator cores - required by all lr-* emulators (/home/pieter/RetroPie-Setup/tmp/build/retroarch/retroarch not found).

 

I checked whether libEGL might be missing:

sudo apt-get install libegl1-mesa-de

libegl1-mesa-dev is already the newest version (23.0.4-0ubuntu1~22.04.1). 0 to upgrade, 0 to newly install, 0 to remove and 0 not to upgrade.

 

I have another machine running Mint 21.2 XFCE, and got the exact same thing.

 

Is this a known issue with the new version of Mint?

Can it be resolved?

 

Thanks in advance!

[Cosmic Emotion]

RetroArch is also on Flathub. I'm not sure what RetroPie is is.