How To Install protontricks on Debian 12

Learn how to install protontricks on Debian 12 with this tutorial. protontricks is simple wrapper that does Winetricks things for Proton

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install protontricks on Debian 12.

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 Debian 12. 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 Debian. 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 Debian 12

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 Debian 12, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove protontricks

Remove protontricks Configurations and Data

To remove protontricks configuration and data from Debian 12 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

Dependencies

protontricks have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install protontricks package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.