How To Install winetricks on CentOS 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install winetricks on CentOS 8. winetricks is Work around common problems in Wine

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install winetricks on CentOS 8.

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 CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install winetricks.

Install winetricks on CentOS 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

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

sudo yum -y install winetricks

Install winetricks on CentOS 8 Using dnf

If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first. Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache

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

sudo dnf -y install winetricks

How To Uninstall winetricks on CentOS 8

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

sudo dnf remove winetricks

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install winetricks on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.