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Installing Lutris

Requirements

Lutris should work on any up to date Linux system. It is based on Python and Gtk but will run on any desktop environment. The following dependencies should be installed:

  • Python > 3.4
  • PyGObject
  • PyGObject bindings for: Gtk, Gdk, GnomeDesktop, Webkit2, Notify
  • python3-requests
  • python3-pillow
  • python3-yaml
  • python3-evdev (optional, for controller detection)

These dependencies are only for running the Lutris client. To install and run games themselves we recommend you install the following packages:

  • psmisc (or the package providing 'fuser')
  • pz7zip (or the package providing '7z')
  • curl
  • fluid-soundfont-gs (or other soundfonts for MIDI support)
  • cabextract (if needed, to install Windows games)
  • x11-xserver-utils (or the package providing 'xrandr', if you are running Xorg, if you are not, you will depend on the GnomeDesktop bindings to fetch screen resolutions on Wayland, the GnomeDesktop library is not directly related to the Gnome desktop and is only used as a xrandr replacement.)
  • libc6-i386 and lib32gcc1 for 32bit games support
  • The 32bit OpenGL driver for your graphics card

To install all those dependencies on Ubuntu based systems, you can run:

sudo apt install python3-yaml python3-requests python3-pil python3-gi \
  gir1.2-gtk-3.0 gir1.2-gnomedesktop-3.0 gir1.2-webkit2-4.0 \
  gir1.2-notify-0.7 psmisc cabextract unzip p7zip curl fluid-soundfont-gs \
  x11-xserver-utils python3-evdev libc6-i386 lib32gcc1 libgirepository1.0-dev

Installation

Lutris uses Python's distutils framework for installation. In order to install Lutris, you will need root access. To install Lutris, perform the following command:

sudo python3 setup.py install

Although this is the standard way of installing Python packages we STRONGLY advice against using it. You won't be able to easily remove the installed version without you having to go through /usr/local and manually delete lutris related files. The setup.py script is used by packaging tools to build the actual packages.

Prefer installing Lutris through distribution packages or run it directly from the source directory:

git clone https://github.com/lutris/lutris
cd lutris
./bin/lutris

Run Lutris

If you installed Lutris using a package or the setup.py script, you can launch the program by typing "lutris" at the command line. If you want to run Lutris without installing it, start "bin/lutris" from within the Lutris directory.