Winetricks
A helper script that installs missing DLLs and runtime libraries and applies tweaks to Wine prefixes.
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1 more ways to get Winetricks
Package managers
- Homebrew
brew install winetricks
About Winetricks
Winetricks is a way to work around problems in Wine. It has a menu of supported applications and can apply the workarounds each one needs automatically. It can also install missing DLLs and runtime libraries into a Wine prefix and change various Wine settings.
It suits Linux users running Windows programs or games through Wine who need a component that Wine does not ship. The project was previously hosted on Google Code and now lives on GitHub.
Strengths
- Automatic workarounds for a menu of supported applications
- Installs missing DLLs and runtime libraries into a prefix
- Adjusts Wine settings without editing the registry by hand
- Long-running project with a large commit history
Limitations
- Only useful alongside Wine
- Workarounds cover the listed applications, not every program
Details
- Pricing
- FreeFree and open source.
- License
- LGPL-2.1-or-later
- Developer
- The Winetricks contributors
- Platforms
- Linux, Command line
- How it runs
- Downloadable app
- Account
- Not required
- Best suited for
- Wine users who need to add Windows components or fix a stubborn program
- Categories
- Gaming tools, Developer tools
- Last verified
- Added
- Provenance
- Facts checked against the developer's own pages and store listings, 1 sources on file.
Alternatives to Winetricks
Compare allSoftware that can replace Winetricks for an important use case, and what changes if you switch.
Protontricks
A wrapper that runs Winetricks commands against the prefixes of Steam Proton games.
Protontricks wraps Winetricks to find Steam Proton game prefixes automatically, so it targets Proton games rather than plain Wine prefixes and still requires Winetricks installed.
Bottles
A friendly manager for Wine prefixes on Linux, so running a Windows program means picking an environment rather than editing config files.
Bottles installs dependencies from a catalogue into Wine prefixes through a graphical Linux interface, adding versioning, backups and built-in winecfg and regedit tools.
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Proton
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