Introduction
This will guide through the steps to install Lutris for gaming on Debian Linux. I followed these steps using Debian 11 to play StarCraft 2 and other games.
Enable 32-bit repos
For several things, you'll need the 32-bit libraries so enable that with apt.
# Enable multilib
sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386
sudo apt edit-sources
Then in the apt sources, make sure i386 is added
deb [arch=amd64,i386] http://deb.debian.org/debian/ bullseye main non-free contrib
sudo apt update
Install wine staging
# Trust Wine's gpg key
wget -nc https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/winehq.key
sudo apt-key add winehq.key
sudo apt edit-sources
# Add the following line: Replace bullseye with current version
deb https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/debian/ bullseye main
# Install updated wine packages
sudo apt update
sudo apt install --install-recommends winehq-staging
Without installing Wine staging, I would see errors like the following:
err:kerberos:kerberos_LsaApInitializePackage no Kerberos support
err:user:load_desktop_driver failed to load L"winex11.drv"
Install NVidia drivers in Debian
To disable the Nouveau drivers and install the NVIDIA drivers,
sudo vim /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-nouveau.conf
Put the following contents in the file:
blacklist nouveau
options nouveau modeset=0
Then update initramf and reboot.
sudo update-initramfs -u
sudo reboot
Then you can download and run the official NVIDIA driver installer from https://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx.
# For example:
sudo /bin/sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-470.94.run
Switching to console only mode
If you are in the desktop environment, and you need to turn it off for NVIDIA installer to run properly, open your terminal and run init 3 to get to terminal only mode:
sudo init 3
# Then press CTRL+ALT+F1 or F2
# Install the drivers
# To get back to graphical mode:
sudo init 5
Vulkan drivers
Install the libvulkan stuff or it will complain about not being able to find vulkan 32-bit drivers.
sudo apt install libvulkan1 libvulkan1:i386
Install Lutris
Follow instructions on Lutris website: https://lutris.net/downloads
At the time of writing this, the Debian 11 steps were:
echo "deb http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/strycore/Debian_11/ ./" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/lutris.list
wget -q https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/strycore/Debian_11/Release.key -O- | sudo apt-key add -
sudo apt update
sudo apt install lutris
Install games with Lutris
To install games with Lutris, open the program and find in the left menu: "Sources | Lutris" and then select the "Community Installers" tab and search.
Each game by default will create its own Wine prefix directory in $HOME/Games.
Installing StarCraft 2
For StarCraft 2, I also needed winbind and gnutls.
sudo apt install winbind libgnutls{xx28,28-dev}:i386
References
- https://linuxconfig.org/how-to-install-wine-staging-on-debian-10-buster
- https://askubuntu.com/questions/841876/how-to-disable-nouveau-kernel-driver
- https://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers
- https://github.com/lutris/docs/blob/master/InstallingDrivers.md
- ]http://docs.nvidia.com/cuda/cuda-installation-guide-linux/index.html#ixzz4rQODN0jy](http://docs.nvidia.com/cuda/cuda-installation-guide-linux/index.html#ixzz4rQODN0jy)