WINETRICKS

Section: Wine Package Manager (1)
Updated: February 2021
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NAME

winetricks - manage virtual Windows environments using Wine

SYNOPSIS

winetricks [options] [verb ... ]

DESCRIPTION

winetricks is an easy way to work around common problems in Wine.

It provides simple commands to tweak Wine settings, download and install missing Windows DLLs and fonts, or install various games or apps with appropriate workarounds for the current version of Wine.

It can be used via GUI or command line. The command-line mode is intended both for interactive use and as a building block in fancier Wine frontends and in automated regression testing.

winetricks with no arguments displays a GUI using either Zenity or Kdialog.

OPTIONS

--country=CC: Set country code to CC and don't detect your IP address when retrying downloads
--force: Don't check whether packages were already installed
--gui: Show GUI diagnostics even when driven by the command-line interface
--isolate: Install each app or game in its own bottle
-k, --keep_isos: Cache ISOs (allows later installation without disc)
--no-isolate: Don't install each app or game in its own bottle (default)
--no-clean: Don't delete temp directories (useful during debugging)
-q, --unattended: Don't ask any questions, just install automatically
-r, --ddrescue: Retry hard when caching scratched discs
-v, --verbose: Echo all commands as they are executed
-h, --help: Display this message and exit
-V, --version: Display version and exit

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, 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

EXAMPLES

To see list of available packages to install:: winetricks list-download
To install a package:: winetricks 7zip

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'.

COPYRIGHT

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/