How To Install winetricks on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install winetricks in Fedora 36. winetricks is Work around common problems in Wine

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install winetricks on Fedora 36.

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 Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install winetricks.

Install winetricks on Fedora 36 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

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

sudo dnf -y install winetricks

Install winetricks on Fedora 36 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

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 Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove winetricks

winetricks Package Contents on Fedora 36

/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

winetricks website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install winetricks on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).