PLEASE NOTE: THIS GUIDE IS UPDATED REGULARLY AS PER FEEDBACK FROM MY YOUTUBE VIDEOS. IT SHOULD ALWAYS BE RELEVANT.
How to get out of Wine Dependency hell (aka I just installed Lutris to run wine games and *forgot* to install everything wine related):
Preface (You can skip this to the instructions below if you don’t need an explanation):
Dependencies are libraries and programs that another program needs in order to be able to run and/or be compiled. This is why binary pre-compiled blobs are bad and why many people choose to use compile-friendly distros like Arch, Gentoo, OpenSUSE and the like. When you compile something, it uses the libraries found natively on your system, and you know what’s being used to build the program in addition to the option to view/modify/patch the code.
Example –
Say I’m on Ubuntu, right? Let’s say I have all the libraries I need for Wine. So I compile wine into a binary blob package and put it on a ppa for people to use. Here’s the problem — many of wines libraries are marked as optional.
So I could have libraries I built with that you dont have. Also let’s say its not marked as a dependency on my binary blob package. So you install the package, your game keeps crashing, and you’re like what the hell?? Turns out you don’t have all the libraries it needs, or a version of the libraries I used is different from the ones on your system. There’s no way to tell that though because i didnt put them in the package dependency requirements, and wine lists them as optional.
If you look here:
https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/tree/PKGBUILD?h=wine-staging-git
Look at depends, makedepends, and optdepends. You literally want ALL of those installed before compiling+installing wine. A binary blob package isn’t gonna tell you that unless the person who made the package specified it. The Arch PKGBUILD above was made by a user, who was kind enough to tell other users everything necessary to build and run the program.
Runtimes –
Some programs come with their own set of “runtimes” – their own versions of libraries, in order to remedy this problem. Lutris does it, Steam does it, as well as many games.
Example –
What the lutris runtimes do is it makes lutris use a copy of the “runtime” libraries packaged with lutris that they used to compile their “runners” – versions of wine. Steam does something very similar with Ubuntu runtimes. Sometimes however, even then there can be version problems but for the most part it works.
So why do I want to install all the packages if runtimes are available? Ideally it’s better to have native libraries than using pre-shipped runtimes because your system knows how to use them as opposed to runtimes that were again – built on another system. This comes down to versioning.
Versioning –
Say I have a game that crashes using the library glibc 2.x but works on 2.y. That glibc may not crash all games, but it crashes this one. So I find out my system has glibc 2.y.. Great! Yay! So I’d want to disable the runtimes because the ones packaged came with 2.x. This is where the trouble starts. If i dont have -all- the libraries I need – I face possible crashes due to other missing libraries because my system doesn’t have all the library dependencies – hence I am officially in Wine Dependency hell.
Summary:
Install all the wine dependencies on your system natively, disable runtimes when possible so that the program doesnt rely on it’s own runtimes, and only use runtimes selectively when needed.
Instructions
Antergos/Manjaro/Arch derivatives (enable multilib in pacman.conf):
sudo pacman -Sy
sudo pacman -S wine-staging winetricks
sudo pacman -S giflib lib32-giflib libpng lib32-libpng libldap lib32-libldap gnutls lib32-gnutls mpg123 lib32-mpg123 openal lib32-openal v4l-utils lib32-v4l-utils libpulse lib32-libpulse alsa-plugins lib32-alsa-plugins alsa-lib lib32-alsa-lib libjpeg-turbo lib32-libjpeg-turbo libxcomposite lib32-libxcomposite libxinerama lib32-libxinerama ncurses lib32-ncurses opencl-icd-loader lib32-opencl-icd-loader libxslt lib32-libxslt libva lib32-libva gtk3 lib32-gtk3 gst-plugins-base-libs lib32-gst-plugins-base-libs vulkan-icd-loader lib32-vulkan-icd-loader cups samba dosbox
Solus:
sudo eopkg install wine wine-devel wine-32bit-devel winetricks
Ubuntu:
wget -nc https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/winehq.key
sudo apt-key add winehq.key
sudo apt-add-repository 'https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu/'
sudo apt update
sudo apt install --install-recommends winehq-staging
sudo apt install winetricks
Mint:
wget -nc https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/winehq.key
sudo apt-key add winehq.key
# For Linux Mint 17.x:
sudo apt-add-repository 'deb https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu/ trusty main'
# For Linux Mint 18.x:
sudo apt-add-repository 'deb https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu/ xenial main'
# For Linux Mint 19.x:
sudo apt-add-repository 'deb https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu/ bionic main'
Then:
sudo apt update
sudo apt install --install-recommends winehq-staging
sudo apt install winetricks
If apt-get complains about missing dependencies, install them, then repeat the last two steps (update and install).
Debian:
sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386
wget -nc https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/winehq.key
sudo apt-key add winehq.key
# For Debian Wheezy add the following line:
deb https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/debian/ wheezy main
# For Debian Jessie this one:
deb https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/debian/ jessie main
# For Debian Stretch this one:
deb https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/debian/ stretch main
# For Debian Buster this one:
deb https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/debian/ buster main
# And for Debian Sid this one:
deb https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/debian/ sid main
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install winehq-staging
sudo apt-get install winetricks
Fedora:
sudo dnf install alsa-plugins-pulseaudio.i686 glibc-devel.i686 glibc-devel libgcc.i686 libX11-devel.i686 freetype-devel.i686 libXcursor-devel.i686 libXi-devel.i686 libXext-devel.i686 libXxf86vm-devel.i686 libXrandr-devel.i686 libXinerama-devel.i686 mesa-libGLU-devel.i686 mesa-libOSMesa-devel.i686 libXrender-devel.i686 libpcap-devel.i686 ncurses-devel.i686 libzip-devel.i686 lcms2-devel.i686 zlib-devel.i686 libv4l-devel.i686 libgphoto2-devel.i686 cups-devel.i686 libxml2-devel.i686 openldap-devel.i686 libxslt-devel.i686 gnutls-devel.i686 libpng-devel.i686 flac-libs.i686 json-c.i686 libICE.i686 libSM.i686 libXtst.i686 libasyncns.i686 libedit.i686 liberation-narrow-fonts.noarch libieee1284.i686 libogg.i686 libsndfile.i686 libuuid.i686 libva.i686 libvorbis.i686 libwayland-client.i686 libwayland-server.i686 llvm-libs.i686 mesa-dri-drivers.i686 mesa-filesystem.i686 mesa-libEGL.i686 mesa-libgbm.i686 nss-mdns.i686 ocl-icd.i686 pulseaudio-libs.i686 sane-backends-libs.i686 tcp_wrappers-libs.i686 unixODBC.i686 samba-common-tools.x86_64 samba-libs.x86_64 samba-winbind.x86_64 samba-winbind-clients.x86_64 samba-winbind-modules.x86_64 mesa-libGL-devel.i686 fontconfig-devel.i686 libXcomposite-devel.i686 libtiff-devel.i686 openal-soft-devel.i686 mesa-libOpenCL-devel.i686 opencl-utils-devel.i686 alsa-lib-devel.i686 gsm-devel.i686 libjpeg-turbo-devel.i686 pulseaudio-libs-devel.i686 pulseaudio-libs-devel gtk3-devel.i686 libattr-devel.i686 libva-devel.i686 libexif-devel.i686 libexif.i686 glib2-devel.i686 mpg123-devel.i686 mpg123-devel.x86_64 libcom_err-devel.i686 libcom_err-devel.x86_64 libFAudio-devel.i686 libFAudio-devel.x86_64
sudo dnf groupinstall "C Development Tools and Libraries"
sudo dnf groupinstall "Development Tools"
sudo dnf install wine
For Solus the package names have changed, and therefore the new command is:
sudo eopkg it wine wine-devel wine-32bit-devel
thank you
this work in this moment? opengl script dont work :C i wanna play this game in linux please.
It’s not release file for Ubuntu 18.04.
Hey gloriouseggroll,
if there is any one man in the world who deserves to be called glorious, it must be you!!
Thank you VERY MUCH indeed, you saved my day, my weekend, my life. I had big trouble installing some German tax software, ELSTER, with Linux, due to problems with WINE, PlayOnLinux, Windtricks, Updates therein, and the like. It was horrible, searching for the mistake for hours and hours, all in vain.
Somehow I must have carried out the right updates so, hopefully, as I finally stumbled the information that some library packages in Linux might be missing – lib and lib and winehqstaging.
I do not even know in what connection I really came to your site for 🙂 – but I did the steps you proposed for Ubuntu, and reinstalled ELSTER – and now, only now it seems to be working!
Thank you so much for your advice- what a relief!
I FUCKING LOVE YOU! i have no idea what it was i was missing but this seemed to have fixed my issue
for debian which was used to sign packages has changed now use
sudo dpkg –add-architecture i386
wget -nc https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/Release.key
sudo apt-key add Release.key
then add
deb https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/debian/ wheezy main
hi , still can’t get debian to work
is there a chat / forum I can join to get some help ?
thanks
Sorry man, I honestly can’t support debian, and if you’re trying to game on debian my advice is don’t. I really dislike debian.
Hello, can you amend this for instructions on Gentoo Linux? Thank you.
sorry dude, I have no idea about gentoo.
Gentoo will automatically pull in the dependencies you need for the app-emulation/wine-* Wine packages, for the given USE flags you have specified.
So I’m not sure a Gentoo guide is warranted really. Third party stuff, like setting up your Vulkan layer, are described well enough here: https://github.com/lutris/lutris/wiki/How-to:-DXVK
Could you add Fedora guide? thanks man.
https://wiki.winehq.org/Fedora
what about fedora ? isn’t it a good distro for gaming?
fedora instructions can be found here:
https://wiki.winehq.org/Fedora
<3
For Manjaro I just came up with this command, with a little help from the Manjaro forum.
sudo pacman -S –needed –asdeps $(expac -S ‘%o’ wine-staging)
It installs the whole list of dependencies you wrote, and marks them as dependencies and not explicitly installed, so that they will get removed if you do : pamcan -Rns wine-staging
I don’t know if that works for other arch-based distros, but for Manjaro it’s perfect.
ur a god
If you experience 404 not found errors during apt update that say something like:
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Err:14 https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu/dists/bionic cosmic Release
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if you are using ubuntu with a version different to these https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu/dists/ (I am running 18.10 cosmic) you might want to check your apt sources under `/etc/apt/sources.list` and change it like so:
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deb https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu/ bionic main
# deb-src https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu/ bionic main
# deb-src https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu/ bionic main
deb https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu/ bionic main
# deb-src https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu/ bionic main
~~~~
not sure, if the doubling makes too much sense but at least that solved that error for me 🙂
Hi there, I’m not sure if anyone still checks on this but I’m a Linux noob and I’m having trouble with:
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sudo apt-add-repository ‘https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu/’
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(Ubuntu 18.10)
Looks like a few things in there don’t have a Release file, and Ubuntu’s refusing to add it since it “can’t be done securely”.
What do I do?
I tip my hat to you good sir, problem solved <3
https://github.com/Tk-Glitch/PKGBUILDS/pull/84/commits
Added you to tk-glitch commit.
For Fedora 29 I managed to get the game working by following the steps from winehq to install wine-staging (https://wiki.winehq.org/Fedora). The xboxdrv I installed from https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=1049342 (x86_64 version) – also don’t forget to enable and start xboxdrv service with systemctl.
Played the game for about one hour, it ran flawless.
If you’re using debian, or (as I am) Linux Mint Debian Edition, where it says to do “deb https://…” add “sudo add-apt-repository” at the beginning of the line, so it would look something like this: “sudo add-apt-repository deb https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/debian/ stretch main”