protontricks-desktop-install command not found

Introduction

When you run more command in linux terminal / console, you get the following error message

protontricks-desktop-install: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: protontricks-desktop-install: command not found

Solutions to protontricks-desktop-install: command not found

How To Fix protontricks-desktop-install: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu protontricks-desktop-install is provided by protontricks package.

protontricks is:

Proton is a modified version of Wine used in Steam. This tool allows you to use Winetricks commands for games in Steam using Proton. This is often useful when a game requires closed-source runtime libraries that are not included with Proton.

To fix this problem, we can install more using the command below.

sudo apt-get -y install protontricks

This command might take some time to finish depending on your machine internet connection.

You can also use apt command to install protontricks.

sudo apt -y install protontricks

Or if you have aptitude installed you can use the following command.

sudo aptitude install protontricks

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix protontricks-desktop-install command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.