Lutris is an open source game manager
It was recently announced release of the new version of Lutris 0.5.17, version in which improvements are continued in the different emulators that this utility supports, although it also includes some pretty interesting new features and of which one of them is the support for library synchronization with lutris.net, among other things.
For those who do not know about Lutris, they should know that is a platform designed to simplify the installation, configuration and management of games on Linux systems, is compatible with a variety of game distribution platforms. Lutris acts as an intermediary, as each game in Lutris is associated with a loading script and a driver that describes the environment needed to run the game.
Main novelties of Lutris 0.5.17
In this new version of Lutris 0.5.17 Several fixes and improvements were made, among which, as already mentioned above, one of the most important isl support for library synchronization with lutris.net, allowing you to sync games, playtime and categories on multiple devices.
Another of the changes that Lutris 0.5.17 presents is the support for running games using Supermodel, an emulator of the Sega Model 3 platform that allows you to run some classic arcade games, as well as the support for the Vita3k e emulatorPlay games created for the Sony PlayStation Vita console.
In addition to this, it is noted that Improved the game classification to make it more useful, as well as the "Categories" command can now be used when selecting multiple games and a notification bar has been implemented to alert when Lutris is no longer supported and the error dialog has been improved.
Moreover, The “Lutris” screen has been replaced by a “Games” screen which takes advantage of new game library synchronization capabilities and game sorting has been improved (sorting by game duration and last game time is reversed).
Added experimental support for Umu mode, which allows using Proton and Pressure Vessel (a system for launching games in separate containers) without being tied to the Steam service (it is no longer possible to use Proton in Lutris without umu).
Of the other changes that stand out from this new version:
- Fixed a critical bug that previously prevented installations from completing when the script specified a version of wine.
- Another critical bug affecting Steam library syncing has now been fixed.
- Fixed a bug that previously prevented uninstalling games or runners in Flatpak.
- The “Lutris” service view has been removed, being replaced by the “Games” view thanks to library synchronization.
- Complex options for multiple GPUs were replaced with a simple GPU selector.
- Added new racers, such as Vita3k and supermodel.
- WUA files are now supported by Cemu.
- The “Show hidden games” option now shows hidden games in a separate view and hides them again when exiting.
- Added support for transparent PNG files for custom banners and covers.
- Images are now downloaded automatically for manually added games.
- Support for libstrang and xgamma was also deprecated, as was DXVK's state cache feature, which is no longer relevant for DXVK 2.
Finally, if you want to know more about this new version, you can check the details In the following link.
How to install Lutris on Linux?
For those who are interested in being able to install Lutris, they should know that a deb package is officially offered for installation in distributions compatible with this type of packages, in addition to also offering the source code for compilation. The offered deb package, as well as the source code, can be obtained from the link below.
Or if you prefer, you can do it from a terminal with the following command:
wget https://github.com/lutris/lutris/releases/download/v0.5.17/lutris_0.5.17_all.deb
On the other hand, also, it is possible to perform the installation of Lutris, from the repositories of most Linux distributions.
In order to have this great software in our system, we must do the following, we are going to open a terminal ctrl + alt + T and depending on the system we have we will do the following:
For Debian
echo "deb [signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/lutris.gpg] https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/strycore/Debian_12/ ./" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/lutris.list > /dev/null wget -q -O- https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/strycore/Debian_12/Release.key | gpg --dearmor | sudo tee /etc/apt/keyrings/lutris.gpg > /dev/null sudo apt update sudo apt install lutris
For Ubuntu and derivatives:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:lutris-team/lutris sudo apt update sudo apt install lutris
For Fedora
sudo dnf install lutris
openSUSE
sudo zypper in lutris
Solus
sudo eopkg it lutris
ArchLinux and derivatives:
If you have ArchLinux or a derivative of it, we will be able to install Lutris from the AUR repositories with the help of Yaourt
yay -s lutris