How To Install bottles on Fedora 34

bottles is Easily manage Wine prefix in a new way

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install bottles on Fedora 34.

What is bottles

Easily manage Wine prefix in a new way! (Run Windows software and games on Linux). Features * Create bottles based on environments (a set of rule and dependencies for better software compatibility) * Access to a customizable environment for all your experiments * Run every executable (.exe/.msi) in your bottles, using the context menu in your file manager * Integrated management and storage for executable file arguments * Support for custom environment variables * Simplified DLL overrides * On-the-fly runner change for any Bottle * Various optimizations for better gaming performance (esync, fsync, dxvk, cache, shader compiler, offload .. and much more.) * Tweak different wine prefix settings, without leaving Bottles * Automated dxvk installation * Automatic installation and management of Wine and Proton runners * System for checking runner updates for the bottle and automatic repair in case of breakage * Integrated Dependencies installer with compatibility check based on a community-driver repository * Detection of installed programs * Integrated Task manager for wine processes * Easy access to ProtonDB and WineHQ for support * Configurations update system across Bottles versions * Backup bottles as configuration file or full archive * Import backup archive * Importer from Bottles v1 (and other wineprefix manager) * Bottles versioning (experimental) * .. and much more that you can find by installing Bottles!

We can use yum or dnf to install bottles on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install bottles.

Install bottles on Fedora 34 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

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

sudo dnf -y install bottles

Install bottles on Fedora 34 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

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

sudo yum -y install bottles

How To Uninstall bottles on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove bottles

bottles Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/bottles
/usr/share/applications/com.usebottles.bottles.desktop
/usr/share/bottles
/usr/share/bottles/bottles
/usr/share/bottles/bottles.gresource
/usr/share/bottles/bottles/__init__.py
/usr/share/bottles/bottles/download.py
/usr/share/bottles/bottles/empty.py
/usr/share/bottles/bottles/main.py
/usr/share/bottles/bottles/pages
/usr/share/bottles/bottles/pages/__init__.py
/usr/share/bottles/bottles/pages/create.py
/usr/share/bottles/bottles/pages/details.py
/usr/share/bottles/bottles/pages/dialog.py
/usr/share/bottles/bottles/pages/importer.py
/usr/share/bottles/bottles/pages/list.py
/usr/share/bottles/bottles/pages/new.py
/usr/share/bottles/bottles/pages/onboard.py
/usr/share/bottles/bottles/pages/preferences.py
/usr/share/bottles/bottles/pages/taskmanager.py
/usr/share/bottles/bottles/params.py
/usr/share/bottles/bottles/runner.py
/usr/share/bottles/bottles/utils.py
/usr/share/bottles/bottles/window.py
/usr/share/doc/bottles
/usr/share/doc/bottles/README.md
/usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/com.usebottles.bottles.gschema.xml
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/com.usebottles.bottles.svg
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/symbolic/apps/com.usebottles.bottles-symbolic.svg
/usr/share/licenses/bottles
/usr/share/licenses/bottles/LICENSE
/usr/share/locale/ar/LC_MESSAGES/bottles.mo
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/bottles.mo
/usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/bottles.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/bottles.mo
/usr/share/locale/eo/LC_MESSAGES/bottles.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/bottles.mo
/usr/share/locale/fa/LC_MESSAGES/bottles.mo
/usr/share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/bottles.mo
/usr/share/locale/fil/LC_MESSAGES/bottles.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/bottles.mo
/usr/share/locale/hr/LC_MESSAGES/bottles.mo
/usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/bottles.mo
/usr/share/locale/id/LC_MESSAGES/bottles.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/bottles.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/bottles.mo
/usr/share/locale/nb_NO/LC_MESSAGES/bottles.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/bottles.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt/LC_MESSAGES/bottles.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/bottles.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/bottles.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/bottles.mo
/usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/bottles.mo
/usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/bottles.mo
/usr/share/locale/yi/LC_MESSAGES/bottles.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_Hans/LC_MESSAGES/bottles.mo
/usr/share/metainfo/com.usebottles.bottles.appdata.xml
/usr/bin/bottles
/usr/share/applications/com.usebottles.bottles.desktop
/usr/share/bottles
/usr/share/bottles/bottles
/usr/share/bottles/bottles.gresource
/usr/share/bottles/bottles/__init__.py
/usr/share/bottles/bottles/download.py
/usr/share/bottles/bottles/empty.py
/usr/share/bottles/bottles/main.py
/usr/share/bottles/bottles/pages
/usr/share/bottles/bottles/pages/__init__.py
/usr/share/bottles/bottles/pages/create.py
/usr/share/bottles/bottles/pages/details.py
/usr/share/bottles/bottles/pages/dialog.py
/usr/share/bottles/bottles/pages/importer.py
/usr/share/bottles/bottles/pages/list.py
/usr/share/bottles/bottles/pages/new.py
/usr/share/bottles/bottles/pages/onboard.py
/usr/share/bottles/bottles/pages/preferences.py
/usr/share/bottles/bottles/pages/taskmanager.py
/usr/share/bottles/bottles/params.py
/usr/share/bottles/bottles/runner.py
/usr/share/bottles/bottles/utils.py
/usr/share/bottles/bottles/window.py
/usr/share/doc/bottles
/usr/share/doc/bottles/README.md
/usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/com.usebottles.bottles.gschema.xml
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/com.usebottles.bottles.svg
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/symbolic/apps/com.usebottles.bottles-symbolic.svg
/usr/share/licenses/bottles
/usr/share/licenses/bottles/LICENSE
/usr/share/locale/ar/LC_MESSAGES/bottles.mo
/usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/bottles.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/bottles.mo
/usr/share/locale/eo/LC_MESSAGES/bottles.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/bottles.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/bottles.mo
/usr/share/locale/id/LC_MESSAGES/bottles.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/bottles.mo
/usr/share/locale/la/LC_MESSAGES/bottles.mo
/usr/share/locale/nb_NO/LC_MESSAGES/bottles.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/bottles.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/bottles.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt/LC_MESSAGES/bottles.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/bottles.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/bottles.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/bottles.mo
/usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/bottles.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_Hans/LC_MESSAGES/bottles.mo
/usr/share/metainfo/com.usebottles.bottles.appdata.xml

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install bottles on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.