winetricks1

Usage

Overview

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 applications 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

-f, --force

Don't check whether packages were already installed

--gui

Show GUI diagnostics even when driven by the command-line interface

--gui=OPT

Set OPT to kdialog or zenity to override GUI engine

--isolate

Install each app or game in its own bottle

--self-update

Update this application to the last version

--update-rollback

Rollback the last self update

--no-isolate

Don't install each app or game in its own bottle (default)

--no-clean

Don't delete temp directories (useful during debugging)

--optin

Opt in to reporting which verbs you use to the Winetricks maintainers

--optout

Opt out of reporting which verbs you use to the Winetricks maintainers

-q, --unattended

Don't ask any questions, just install automatically

-t, --torify

Run downloads under torify, if available

-v, --verbose

Echo all commands as they are executed

--verify

Run (automated) GUI tests for verbs, if available

-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'

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

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}