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Witold Baryluk edited this page Jul 23, 2020 · 5 revisions

Installing Lutris

Follow instructions for you distribution at https://lutris.net/downloads/

Distribution provided dependencies

You will also need various 32-bit and 64-bit libraries to be available for the wine runner below to be working correctly. The easiest way to accomplish this is by installing 32-bit and 64-bit wine provided by your distribution. Also make sure you have Vulkan libraries and drivers installed for your GPU, both 32-bit and 64-bit versions.

Debian / Ubuntu

sudo apt install wine wine32 vulkan-tool mesa-vulkan-drivers mesa-vulkan-drivers:amd64

For Nvidia cards, you need nvidia-vulkan-icd nvidia-vulkan-icd:i386 packages (see https://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers for details), or manually install from upstream (kernel compatibility might vary).

Installing the runner

You will need a wine build with lutris support. The latest can be found here:

wine-lutris-eac-testing-5.5-5 : https://drive.google.com/file/d/1n87CZmzMdJiZNHs3Fd4CfzThgde0-Vj0/view?usp=sharing

You may install it by running tar -xf /path/to/wine-lutris-eac-testing-5.5-5-x86_64.tar.xz -C "${HOME}/.local/share/lutris/runners/wine/". Be sure to adjust the path to the tarball in the command or it will fail. Once it is extracted, restart lutris and you should be able to select it when configuring lutris games.

Updating your wine prefix with the runner.

You will want to run a wineboot -u with the appropriate WINEPREFIX and wineboot binary when switching a prefix to use this to ensure that you do not have problems. Here is an example command:

env WINEPREFIX="${HOME}/Games/apex-legends" "${HOME}/.local/share/lutris/runners/wine/lutris-eac-testing-5.5-5-x86_64/bin/wineboot" -u

Also, make sure to switch your prefix to use the runner by configuring it in lutris. You may do these steps in either order. The idea is to ensure that the lutris-eac-testing build wine sees a prefix that has been properly updated, as people have had problems when they were not properly updated.