Winetricks

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

It has a menu of supported games/apps for which it can do all the workarounds automatically. It also allows the installation of missing DLLs and tweaking of various Wine settings.

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)

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Installation

root #emerge -a 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.

External resources

https://github.com/Winetricks/winetricks - GitHub