WINETRICKS(1)

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💖 WINETRICKS — the Wine Package Manager, bestie edition 💖

okay so you found the winetricks manpage and honestly? slay. this is the whole vibe. it's WINETRICKS(1) from the Wine Package Manager corner of the world, and I'm gonna walk you through every single bit of it like we're texting at 2am. no details skipped, no cap. 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

winetricks — manage virtual Windows environments using Wine. that's it. that's the whole job. 💅

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

winetricks [options] [verb ... ]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

winetricks is literally the easiest way to work around common problems in Wine. like, it's giving "life hack but make it open source." ✨

It gives you simple commands to tweak Wine settings, download and install missing Windows DLLs and fonts, or install various games or apps with the appropriate workarounds for whatever version of Wine you're running. iconic behavior, honestly.

You can use it via GUI or command line. The command-line mode is meant both for interactive use and as a building block in fancier Wine frontends and in automated regression testing. it's a whole multitasker. main character energy fr fr.

and listen — winetricks with no arguments displays a GUI using either Zenity or Kdialog. so if you just run it bare, surprise, you get a window. 🎀

💅 OPTIONS 💅

  • --country=CC — set the country code to CC, and don't go detecting your IP address when it retries downloads. privacy-ish, we love that.
  • --force — don't check whether packages were already installed. just go. 🔥
  • --gui — show GUI diagnostics even when it's being driven by the command-line interface. best of both worlds.
  • --isolate — install each app or game in its own bottle. separate little homes. so cute, so organized. 🍓
  • -k, --keep_isos — cache ISOs, which lets you install later without the disc. hoard those ISOs, king. 👑
  • --no-isolate — don't install each app or game in its own bottle. this is the default, btw.
  • --no-clean — don't delete temp directories. useful during debugging. messy on purpose. 🫶
  • -q, --unattended — don't ask any questions, just install automatically. zero small talk, all action.
  • -r, --ddrescue — retry hard when caching scratched discs. it will try again bestie, it's persistent like that. 💪
  • -v, --verbose — echo all commands as they're executed. so you can watch the whole thing happen in real time. 👀
  • -h, --help — display this message and exit. the classic.
  • -V, --version — display version and exit. the other classic.

🌈 COMMANDS 🌈

  • apps list — list verbs in category 'applications'
  • benchmarks list — list verbs in category 'benchmarks'
  • dlls list — list verbs in category 'dlls'
  • games list — list verbs in category 'games'
  • fonts list — list verbs in category 'fonts'
  • settings list — list verbs in category 'settings'
  • list — list categories
  • list-cached — list cached-and-ready-to-install verbs
  • list-download — list verbs which download automatically
  • list-manual-download — list verbs which download with some help from the user
  • list-installed — list already-installed verbs
  • arch=32|64 — create wineprefix with 32 or 64 bit. heads up: this option must be given before prefix=foobar and will not work in case of the default wineprefix. ⚠️
  • prefix=foobar — select WINEPREFIX=$HOME/.local/share/wineprefixes/foobar
  • annihilate — Delete ALL DATA AND APPLICATIONS INSIDE THIS WINEPREFIX
bestie. annihilate is in ALL CAPS for a reason. that's your data. gone. be so serious about that one. 😭💀

⭐ EXAMPLES ⭐

To see list of available packages to install:

winetricks list-download

To install a package:

winetricks 7zip

look at that. two lines. ate. 💅

🧚 ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES 🧚

Wine checks several environment variables on startup:

  • WINE — if set, this specifies which wine binary to use by default
  • WINESERVER — if set, this specifies which wineserver to use by default
  • WINEPREFIX — if set, this specifies the location of the default .wine directory ( usually $HOME/.wine ).
  • XDG_CACHE_HOME — if set, this is path to system's user data cache (default: $HOME/.cache) W_CACHE path to Winetricks' user data cache (default: $XDG_CACHE_HOME/winetricks}

🎀 AUTHORS 🎀

Dan Kegel, Austin English, and many others. For a complete list, please see the "Copyright" section in the file 'winetricks'.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Library General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. See <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.

🙈 BUGS 🙈

Bugs may be reported at https://github.com/Winetricks/winetricks

🔥 AVAILABILITY 🔥

The most recent version of winetricks can be downloaded from https://github.com/Winetricks/winetricks/releases

The latest snapshot of the code may be obtained via git; see https://github.com/Winetricks/winetricks/

For further information about winetricks see https://github.com/Winetricks/winetricks/

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

okay that's the whole thing, you're officially a winetricks girlie now. 💖

this was Winetricks 20210206, from February 2021 — yeah it's a lil vintage, it's giving throwback, but it still slays. good luck out there bestie, go install something cute. 🌸✨🦋💅🫶

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