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  • 04/13/2015 at 19:51 #94756
    danbeast94
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    So I am brand new to this raspberry pi thing and I have little idea as to what to do. I was wondering if I needed to download Raspbian and Retropie separately or does Retropie come with Raspbian. Any help would be greatly appreciated, and save me from a lot of stress.
    Thanks

    04/13/2015 at 19:57 #94762
    djppimp
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    just download the sd image of retropie, thats all you need

    04/13/2015 at 20:00 #94763
    herbfargus
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    Retropie is built on raspbian. Download the SD image and you’ll be fine. It lacks the desktop GUI lxde but that can be installed as needed (thoug you really don’t need it for retropie)

    04/13/2015 at 21:00 #94774
    danbeast94
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    Thanks very much!

    05/05/2015 at 12:57 #96949
    methanoid
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    [quote=94763]Retropie is built on raspbian. Download the SD image and you’ll be fine. It lacks the desktop GUI lxde but that can be installed as needed (thoug you really don’t need it for retropie)

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    Ah, and Raspbian isn’t yet fully optimized for Pi2…. I was hoping the Pi2 images for RetroPie would be fully optimized. I am looking to base my Pi2 setup on an optimized Linux, with RetroPie, Kodi, Desktop and Steam Streaming amongst the options to select.

    Is installing desktop GUI as simple as “sudo apt-get install lxde” ??

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