WINETRICKS path is invalid

Hi,

OS : Fedora 37
Protontricks flatpak
Winetricks from software, installed in /usr/bin/winetricks

Protontricks is not able to find the winetricks binary.

`protontricks -l

protontricks (ERROR): The WINETRICKS path is invalid, please make sure Winetricks is installed in that path!
Winetricks isn't installed, please install winetricks in order to use this script!
`

Even if :

• Allow to access to the Protontricks flatpak to all directories via Flatseal
• Create an environment variable with export WINETRICKS=/usr/bin/winetricks
• added export WINE="/usr/bin/wine"; export WINETRICKS="/usr/bin/winetricks";alias protontricks='flatpak run com.github.Matoking.protontricks';alias protontricks-launch='flatpak run --command=protontricks-launch com.github.Matoking.protontricks' in ~/.bashrc
• sudo flatpak override --env=WINETRICKS=/usr/bin/winetricks com.github.Matoking.protontricks
• can access winetricks with $WINETRICKS in a terminal

Do you have an idea how I can fix it?

[bootrecords]

I've run into the same issue on Fedora 39 Silverblue, having installed winetricks via rpm-ostree and protontricks as a flatpak. Any idea how to further debug or fix this?

[Matoking]

Winetricks should be bundled with the Protontricks Flatpak and not require separate installation. If you enter the Flatpak sandbox you should find it in /app/bin/winetricks like so:

$ flatpak run --command=bash com.github.Matoking.protontricks
# Inside the sandbox
$ less /app/bin/winetricks

Is it missing?

[bootrecords]

Thanks for the response.

It is not missing in the flatpak I'm using (v1.11.1), though to my understanding one of the reasons the $WINETICKS environment variable is parsed is so that a different winetricks version can be used, e.g. when provided from the host system.

However, your comment reminded me that flatpaks do use an overlay filesystem and even when using the --filesystem=host option, files from the host do not always actually get mounted into system folders inside the flatpak, so when running a local winetricks from e.g. /usr/bin/winetricks it actually ends up in /run/host/bin/winetricks inside the flatpak, which is then what the $WINETRICKS variable needs to be set to.

(That said, providing $WINE can be a bit of a different kind of beast, since it's on some systems [like Fedora] symlinked into /etc/altenatives/wine, which again following the above rules actually gets mounted in /run/host/etc/altenatives/wine - though since in my system's case that in turn is just a symlink back to the wine32 binary in the /usr/bin folder, one may as well directly point the $WINE variable to that...)

Anyway, doesn't actually appear to be an issue with the flatpak after all, though you may want to consider putting a reminder into the docs for users of the flatpak vesion not to get confused about how to set the $WINE[TRICKS] variables. Otherwise, at least as far as I'm concerned, this issue may be closed.