How To Install winetricks on CentOS 8

winetricks is Work around common problems in Wine

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install winetricks on CentOS 8.

What is winetricks

Winetricks is an easy way to work around common problems in Wine. It has a menu of supported games/apps for which it can do all the workarounds automatically. It also lets you install missing DLLs or tweak various Wine settings individually.

We can use yum or dnf to install winetricks on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install winetricks.

Install winetricks on CentOS 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream                                       43 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS                                          65 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease                               43 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras                                          23 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack                                       40 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability                                36 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus                                            24 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools                                      50 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64           13 kB/s | 9.2 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64                   24 kB/s | 8.5 kB     00:00    
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install winetricks using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install winetricks

Install winetricks on CentOS 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream                                       43 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS                                          65 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease                               43 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras                                          23 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack                                       40 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability                                36 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus                                            24 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools                                      50 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64           13 kB/s | 9.2 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64                   24 kB/s | 8.5 kB     00:00    
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install winetricks using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install winetricks

How To Uninstall winetricks on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the winetricks package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove winetricks

winetricks Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/bin/winetricks
/usr/share/applications/winetricks.desktop
/usr/share/bash-completion/completions/winetricks
/usr/share/doc/winetricks
/usr/share/doc/winetricks/README.md
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/winetricks.svg
/usr/share/licenses/winetricks
/usr/share/licenses/winetricks/COPYING
/usr/share/licenses/winetricks/copyright
/usr/share/man/man1/winetricks.1.gz
/usr/share/metainfo/winetricks.appdata.xml

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install winetricks on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.