How To Install protontricks on Fedora 34

protontricks is Simple wrapper that does winetricks things for Proton enabled games

Introduction

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

What is protontricks

A simple wrapper that does winetricks things for Proton enabled games, requires Winetricks. This is a fork of the original project created by sirmentio. The original repository is available at Sirmentio/protontricks.

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

Install protontricks 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 protontricks using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install protontricks

Install protontricks 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 protontricks using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install protontricks

How To Uninstall protontricks on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove protontricks

protontricks Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/protontricks
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/protontricks
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/protontricks-1.4.4-py3.9.egg-info
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/protontricks-1.4.4-py3.9.egg-info/PKG-INFO
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/protontricks-1.4.4-py3.9.egg-info/SOURCES.txt
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/protontricks-1.4.4-py3.9.egg-info/dependency_links.txt
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/protontricks-1.4.4-py3.9.egg-info/entry_points.txt
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/protontricks-1.4.4-py3.9.egg-info/requires.txt
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/protontricks-1.4.4-py3.9.egg-info/top_level.txt
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/protontricks/__init__.py
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/protontricks/__pycache__
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/protontricks/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-39.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/protontricks/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-39.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/protontricks/__pycache__/_version.cpython-39.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/protontricks/__pycache__/_version.cpython-39.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/protontricks/__pycache__/cli.cpython-39.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/protontricks/__pycache__/cli.cpython-39.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/protontricks/__pycache__/gui.cpython-39.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/protontricks/__pycache__/gui.cpython-39.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/protontricks/__pycache__/steam.cpython-39.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/protontricks/__pycache__/steam.cpython-39.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/protontricks/__pycache__/util.cpython-39.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/protontricks/__pycache__/util.cpython-39.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/protontricks/__pycache__/winetricks.cpython-39.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/protontricks/__pycache__/winetricks.cpython-39.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/protontricks/_version.py
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/protontricks/cli.py
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/protontricks/gui.py
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/protontricks/steam.py
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/protontricks/util.py
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/protontricks/winetricks.py
/usr/share/doc/protontricks
/usr/share/doc/protontricks/CHANGELOG.md
/usr/share/doc/protontricks/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/protontricks
/usr/share/licenses/protontricks/LICENSE
/usr/bin/protontricks
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/protontricks
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/protontricks-1.5.1-py3.9.egg-info
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/protontricks-1.5.1-py3.9.egg-info/PKG-INFO
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/protontricks-1.5.1-py3.9.egg-info/SOURCES.txt
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/protontricks-1.5.1-py3.9.egg-info/dependency_links.txt
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/protontricks-1.5.1-py3.9.egg-info/entry_points.txt
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/protontricks-1.5.1-py3.9.egg-info/requires.txt
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/protontricks-1.5.1-py3.9.egg-info/top_level.txt
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/protontricks/__init__.py
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/protontricks/__pycache__
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/protontricks/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-39.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/protontricks/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-39.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/protontricks/__pycache__/_version.cpython-39.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/protontricks/__pycache__/_version.cpython-39.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/protontricks/__pycache__/cli.cpython-39.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/protontricks/__pycache__/cli.cpython-39.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/protontricks/__pycache__/gui.cpython-39.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/protontricks/__pycache__/gui.cpython-39.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/protontricks/__pycache__/steam.cpython-39.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/protontricks/__pycache__/steam.cpython-39.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/protontricks/__pycache__/util.cpython-39.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/protontricks/__pycache__/util.cpython-39.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/protontricks/__pycache__/winetricks.cpython-39.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/protontricks/__pycache__/winetricks.cpython-39.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/protontricks/_version.py
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/protontricks/cli.py
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/protontricks/gui.py
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/protontricks/steam.py
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/protontricks/util.py
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/protontricks/winetricks.py
/usr/share/doc/protontricks
/usr/share/doc/protontricks/CHANGELOG.md
/usr/share/doc/protontricks/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/protontricks
/usr/share/licenses/protontricks/LICENSE

References

Summary

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