How To Install protontricks on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install protontricks
on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is protontricks
protontricks is:
Proton is a modified version of Wine used in Steam. This tool allows you to use Winetricks commands for games in Steam using Proton. This is often useful when a game requires closed-source runtime libraries that are not included with Proton.
There are three methods to install protontricks
on Ubuntu 22.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install protontricks Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install protontricks
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install protontricks
Install protontricks Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install protontricks
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install protontricks
Install protontricks Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install protontricks
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install protontricks
How To Uninstall protontricks on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the protontricks
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove protontricks
Uninstall protontricks And Its Dependencies
To uninstall protontricks
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove protontricks
Remove protontricks Configurations and Data
To remove protontricks
configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge protontricks
Remove protontricks configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove protontricks
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge protontricks
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install protontricks
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.