The stable version of Lutris 0.5 with GOG support is now ready

Lutris is an administrator of free and open source games for Linux, this administrator has with direct support for Steam and also for more than 20 game emulators, among which we can include DOSbox, ScummVM, Atari 800, Snes9x, Dolphin, PCSX2 and PPSSPP.

This great software It allows us to gather thousands of games from different platforms in a single application, with which we could say that it is the Kodi of games. Therefore, it is an excellent option for every gamer.

These installers are contributed by its large community facilitating the installation of some games that are necessary to run under Wine.

Furthermore, Lutris It has support for Steam so the titles that we have in our account can be synchronized with Lutris and also run those that are native to Linux or otherwise we can also run Steam under Wine and the installer will take care of everything.

About Lutris

Each game in Lutris is attached to a download script and a controller that describes the environment for launching the game.

Lutris provides out-of-the-box profiles with optimal settings for running games running Wine. In addition to Wine, games can be launched using game console emulators, such as RetroArch, Dosbox, FS-UAE, ScummVM, MESS, and Dolphin.

The runtime components for running games are supplied by the project and are not tied to the distribution used.

Runtime is a set of libraries independent of the distribution, which includes components of SteamOS, as well as several additional libraries.

A directory is supported for quick search and installation of game applications, allowing you to run games on Linux one-click through a single interface, without worrying about installing dependencies and settings.

Including the installation of games distributed through the services of GOG, Steam, Battle.net, Origin and Uplay.

At the same time, Lutris only acts as an intermediary and does not sell games, therefore, for commercial games, the user must purchase the game independently from the corresponding service (free games can be launched with one click from the Lutris GUI).

The project code is written in Python and distributed under the GPLv3 license.

New version of Lutris 0.5

After several weeks of development, the launch of a new version of the gaming platform was finally announced lutris 0.5.

The main key innovations of Lutris 0.5 are support for installing games through the GOG service, which allows you to connect to your GOG account, import games, and automatically download files from this service during installation.

In addition, the new version offers an optimized GTK + user interface, improved game import tools, the ability to simultaneously run multiple games, an installer for Media Foundation games, and a cache of downloaded files.

Future versions are expected to support integration with Humble Bundle and TOSEC database, the ability to sync the game between different user devices, integrate social media elements (friends lists, chat, team game programmer), implement the interface to configure game controllers.

How to install Lutris on Linux?

In order to have this great software in our system, we must do the following, let's open a terminal ctrl + alt + T and depending on the system we have we will do the following:

For Debian

echo "deb http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/strycore/Debian_9.0/ ./" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/lutris.list

wget -q http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/strycore/Debian_9.0/Release.key -O- | sudo apt-key add -

For Ubuntu and derivatives:

sudo sh -c "echo 'deb http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/strycore/xUbuntu_18.10/ /' > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/home:strycore.list"
wget -nv https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:strycore/xUbuntu_18.10/Release.key -O Release.key

Ubuntu 18.04:

sudo sh -c "echo 'deb http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/strycore/xUbuntu_18.04/ /' > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/home:strycore.list"

wget -nv https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:strycore/xUbuntu_18.10/Release.key -O Release.key

Finally we install with:

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install lutris

For Fedora we are going to make use of the openSUSE repos, depending on the version of Fedora we must add the corresponding:

Fedora 29

dnf config-manager --add-repo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:strycore/Fedora_29/home:strycore.repo

dnf install lutris

Fedora 28

dnf config-manager --add-repo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:strycore/Fedora_28/home:strycore.repo

dnf install lutris

ArchLinux and derivatives:

If you have ArchLinux or some derivative of it, we will be able to install Lutris from the AUR repositories with the help of Yaourt

yaourt -s lutris