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Winetricks

Winetricks is a free, open-source gaming app for macOS and Linux. Winetricks is an easy way to work around problems in Wine. It has 3,555 GitHub stars and is released under the LGPL-2.1 license. Its source code is on GitHub at Winetricks/winetricks.

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About Winetricks

It has a menu of supported applications for which it can do all the workarounds automatically. It also allows the installation of missing DLLs and tweaking of various Wine settings.

Install Winetricks

Package names found in the project's README. Each links to its package page so you can check the publisher first.

Homebrew (macOS)
brew install winetricks

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FAQ

Winetricks FAQ

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Is Winetricks free and open source?

Yes. Winetricks's source code is public on GitHub under the LGPL-2.1 license, which is OSI-approved or FSF-free, so you can use, copy and change it for free.

How do I install Winetricks?

Homebrew: brew install winetricks. The commands are on this page. Installers are also on its GitHub Releases page (latest: 20260125).

Is Winetricks still maintained?

The repository's most recent commit was on Aug 27, 2026. appsgit only lists apps whose repository had a commit in the last six months.