Supplemental Linux® From Scratch (System V Edition) - Version #d155

Chapter 4. General Utilities

Winetricks-20250102

Introduction to Winetricks

Winetricks is a shell script that can fix various issues with Wine. Most often, these issues arise from files being missing that some applications may expect, such as font files. This package can download those files, and extract them if needed.

Winetricks Dependencies

Required

cURL or Wget and Wine

Recommended

7zip, libarchive, libmspack-1.11, UnRar, and xdg-utils

Optional

kdialog (for KDE) or zentiy (for GNOME); this package uses either to provide a GUI interface but is optional

Installation of Winetricks

Install Winetricks as the root user: 

make install

Contents

Installed Programs: winetricks
Installed Libraries: None
Installed Directories: None

Short Descriptions

winetricks

installs various files some Windows applications expect