Winetricks

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Winetricks is an easy way to work around problems in Wine.

It is a Shell script allowing for easy installation of applications, DLLs, fonts, workarounds, and more.

USE flags

USE flags for app-emulation/winetricks Easy way to install DLLs needed to work around problems in Wine

gui Enable support for a graphical user interface
rar Pull in app-arch/unrar for extraction of rar-compressed game files
test Enable dependencies and/or preparations necessary to run tests (usually controlled by FEATURES=test but can be toggled independently)

Installation

root #emerge --ask app-emulation/winetricks
Note
Should there be issues during normal use, such as a download failure, it may be a good idea to try the live, '99999999' version to see if the issue has not been fixed upstream yet.

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