wine/winetricks.1

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.TH WINETRICKS 1 "June 2013" "Winetricks 20130615" "Wine package manager"
.SH NAME
winetricks \- manage virtual windows environments using wine
.SH SYNOPSIS
.BI "winetricks "
[options] [verb ... ]
.SH DESCRIPTION
.B winetricks
is an easy way to work around common problems in Wine.
.PP
It provides simple commands to
tweak Wine settings,
download and install missing Windows DLLs and fonts,
or install various games or apps with appropriate workarounds for the current version of wine.
.PP
It can be used via gui or commandline.  The commandline mode is intended both for interactive use and as a building block in fancier wine frontends and in automated regression testing.

.B winetricks
with no arguments displays a GUI using either Zenity or Kdialog.

.SH OPTIONS
.TP
.B
\-\-force
Don't check whether packages were already installed
.TP
.B
\-\-gui
Show gui diagnostics even when driven by commandline
.TP
.B
\-k, \-\-keep_isos
Cache isos (allows later installation without disc)
.TP
.B
\-\-no\-clean
Don't delete temp directories (useful during debugging)
.TP
.B
\-\-no\-isolate
Don't install each app or game in its own bottle
.TP
.B
\-q, \-\-unattended
Don't ask any questions, just install automatically
.TP
.B
\-r, \-\-ddrescue
Retry hard when caching scratched discs
.TP
.B
\-\-showbroken
Even show verbs that are currently broken in wine
.TP
.B
\-v, \-\-verbose
Echo all commands as they are executed
.TP
.B
\-h, \-\-help
Display this message and exit
.TP
.B
\-V, \-\-version
Display version and exit

.SH COMMANDS
.TP
.B
apps list
list verbs in category 'applications'
.TP
.B
benchmarks list
list verbs in category 'benchmarks'
.TP
.B
dlls list
list verbs in category 'dlls'
.TP
.B
games list
list verbs in category 'games'
.TP
.B
list
list categories
.TP
.B
list-cached
list cached-and-ready-to-install verbs
.TP
.B
list-download
list verbs which download automatically
.TP
.B
list-manual-download
list verbs which download with some help from the user
.TP
.B
list-installed
list already-installed verbs
.TP
.B
prefix=foobar
select WINEPREFIX=$HOME/.local/share/wineprefixes/foobar
.TP
.B
settings list
list verbs in category 'settings'

.PP
.SH EXAMPLES

.TP
To see list of available packages to install:
winetricks list-download
.TP
To install a package:
winetricks 7zip

.SH ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
Wine checks several environment variables on startup:
.TP
.I WINE
If set, this specifies which wine binary to use by default
.TP
.I WINEPREFIX
If set, this specifies the location of the default .wine directory ( usually
.IR $HOME/.wine
).
.TP
.I XDG_CACHE_HOME
If set, this is path to system's user data cache (default: $HOME/.cache)
.I W_CACHE
path to Winetricks' user data cache (default: $XDG_CACHE_HOME/winetricks}

.SH AUTHORS
Dan Kegel, Austin English, and many others.  For a complete list,
please see the "Copyright" section in the file 'winetricks'.

.SH COPYRIGHT
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the terms of the GNU Library General Public
License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
See <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
.SH BUGS
.PP
Bugs may be reported at
.I http://winetricks.org
.PP
.SH AVAILABILITY
The most recent version of
.B winetricks
can be downloaded from
.I http://winetricks.org/download/releases/
.PP
The latest snapshot of the code may be obtained via svn; see
.I http://code.google.com/p/winetricks/source/checkout
.PP
For further information about
.B winetricks
see
.I http://winetricks.org

.SH "SEE ALSO"
.BR wine (1)