How to install Lutris on Ubuntu?

Lutris is a free and open-source game manager for Linux-based operating systems. Thousands of games are available in Lutris’s game catalog and you can install them with a single click. It makes gaming easier by managing, installing, and providing optimal settings for games.

In this article, I will discuss how to install Lutris on Ubuntu and games on it.

Prerequisites

For installing Lutris in Ubuntu you should have the following –

A recent version of Ubuntu installed on your system (For this article I am using Ubuntu 20.04 LTS)
Access to a user account with superuser privileges

Install and configure Wine

The Wine is a free and open-source compatibility layer that allows a Windows application to run in Linux. It translates Windows system calls to POSIX compliant system calls. There is no code emulation or virtualization occurs while running a Windows application under Wine.

For a smooth gaming experience, Lutris requires Wine to be installed on your system.

To install Wine on your system first open your terminal and enable 32-bit architecture –

sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386

Next download the Wine’s repository key –

wget -nc https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/winehq.key

Now, add the repository key to your system –

sudo apt-key add winehq.key

Finally, add the repository to your system ( Ubuntu 20.04, Linux Mint 20.x )

sudo apt-add-repository 'deb https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu/focal main'

Now, update your system and install the latest stable version of Wine by using the given commands –

sudo apt update
sudo apt install --install-recommends winehq-stable

This will install the latest version of Wine on your system.

You can verify the installation by checking its version –

wine --version

Installing Lutris on Ubuntu

You can install Lutris through a PPA on your Ubuntu system. Now use the given commands to add PPA to your system.

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:lutris-team/lutris

Next, update the local package database –

sudo apt update

Finally, install Lutris using the given command –

sudo apt install lutris

For installing Lutris on other distributions you can follow the instructions given on the Lutris download page.

Launch Lutris

After it gets installed you can launch it from the dashboard Activities by searching Lutris. When it opens it will look as given in the image below.

Installing games on Lutris

After installing Lutris on your system go to the official website of Lutris and in the games section find a specific game that you want to install.

Click on Install as highlighted in the image below.

Now this will open a new window click on Open Link to open it with Lutris. Next, it will ask you to choose the installation directory for the game that you are going to install and click on Install.