How To Install winetricks on Debian 12

Learn how to install winetricks on Debian 12 with this tutorial. winetricks is simple tool to work around common problems in Wine

Introduction

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

What is winetricks

winetricks is:

Winetricks lets you install missing DLLs or tweak various Wine settings individually. It also has a menu of supported games/apps for which it can do all the workarounds automatically.

It can be used via GUI or commandline, whichever you prefer; the commandline mode is particularly useful as a building block in fancier wine frontends and in automated regression testing.

There are three methods to install winetricks 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 winetricks Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install winetricks using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install winetricks

Install winetricks Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install winetricks

Install winetricks 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 winetricks using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install winetricks

How To Uninstall winetricks on Debian 12

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

sudo apt-get remove winetricks

Uninstall winetricks And Its Dependencies

To uninstall winetricks and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove winetricks

Remove winetricks Configurations and Data

To remove winetricks configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge winetricks

Remove winetricks configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove winetricks configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge winetricks

Dependencies

winetricks have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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