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Posted: **2018-06-30 02:31**

It keeps saying

/opt/retropie/supplementary/emulationstation/emulationstation: error while loading shared libraries: libboost_date_time.so.1.55.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

can somebody figure out whats wrong?
My OS is Debian Stretch.
Should i just reinstall?

Posted: **2018-06-30 02:53**

If somebody can help, please do!

Posted: **2018-06-30 10:33**

try this, there are several good emulators in the repo.
https://wiki.debian.org/Emulator

...
My OS is Debian Stretch

If you add things from outside the repo, then at some point it stops being debian stretch.

https://wiki.debian.org/DontBreakDebian

Posted: **2018-06-30 22:19**

I suspect you are using a Raspberry Pi. The Debian version on the Emulationstation website is not for that. Try the Pi version and try the Pi forums for assistance. I doubt anyone here has any experience with Emulationstation.

Posted: **2018-06-30 22:57**

You neglected to let us know how you installed it, anyway. A brief search at packages.debian.org will let you know what package has your missing Boost library, too.

Posted: **2018-07-02 16:27**

but it says "Your keyword was too generic, for optimizing reasons some results might have been suppressed. Please consider using a longer keyword or more keywords." And yes i am using raspberry pi

Posted: **2018-07-02 17:34**

https://packages.debian.org/search?sear ... e&arch=any

Hmmm--it's compiled on Jessie or an Ubuntu version that used Boost 1.55. Stretch has 1.62. They really need to recompile it against the current releases to make it compatible, or you can do it yourself if you have the emulationstation sources...or you can "forwardport" (rebuild and install the Jessie sources) Boost 1.55 on your current system...but that might be pretty hard on a Pi. Let me see if I can build the armhf (pi) packages in the cloud on the openSUSE build service.

Edit: OBS packages are cooking https://build.opensuse.org/package/show ... time1.55.0 armv71 gets translated to armhf packages for Debian.

Posted: **2018-07-02 18:09**

i went to synaptic package manager and it said i had broken packages, so i tried to fix them but it said

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E:Error, pkgProblemResolver::Resolve generated breaks, this may be caused by held packages. E: Unable to correct dependencies

Posted: **2018-07-02 18:10**

Aaaand the 1.55 builds fail with the newer gcc 6 compiler in Stretch. I could add a repo for the Jessie vintage gcc-4.9 compiler to that one and tweak the build to use that one instead, but now you're talking a lot more time. Perhaps you can add the Jessie repo and install the 1.55 packages from it...I think other people have been successful doing that.

Posted: **2018-07-02 18:11**

Awesomegamer656 wrote:i went to synaptic package manager and it said i had broken packages, so i tried to fix them but it said
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E:Error, pkgProblemResolver::Resolve generated breaks, this may be caused by held packages. E: Unable to correct dependencies 

I already asked how you installed Emulationstation, which has a direct bearing on this message...

Posted: **2018-07-02 18:14**

here https://emulationstation.org/gettingsta ... standalone

Posted: **2018-07-02 19:30**

Awesomegamer656 wrote:here https://emulationstation.org/gettingsta ... standalone

This is a guide for everything you need to install EmulationStation on a fresh Raspbian Wheezy install.

so, are you doing this on a raspbian wheezy install?
otherwise it might break your system...

please show us:

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cat /etc/*release*
cat /etc/*issue*
apt-get update

Posted: **2018-07-02 20:26**

debiman wrote:
Awesomegamer656 wrote:here https://emulationstation.org/gettingsta ... standalone
This is a guide for everything you need to install EmulationStation on a fresh Raspbian Wheezy install.
so, are you doing this on a raspbian wheezy install?
otherwise it might break your system...

please show us:
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cat /etc/*release*
cat /etc/*issue*
apt-get update

PRETTY_NAME="Debian GNU/Linux 9 (stretch)"
NAME="Debian GNU/Linux"
VERSION_ID="9"
VERSION="9 (stretch)"
ID=debian
HOME_URL="https://www.debian.org/"
SUPPORT_URL="https://www.debian.org/support"
BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.debian.org/"

Posted: **2018-07-02 21:18**

Some more research shows that site you referenced is old, abandoned, and broken, and Emulationstation development has been forked and updated by the RetroPie project. So if you convert your install to RetroPie per their instructions, or do a fresh install, you should get the program by default.

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