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Lutris is a free and open source game manager for Linux-based operating systems developed and maintained by Mathieu Comandon and the community, released under the GNU General Public License.

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Lutris
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Lutris
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The Lutris Otter
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CommunityMathieu Comandon
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Python, GObject
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English
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Lutris helps you install and play video games from all eras and from most gaming systems. By leveraging and combining existing emulators, engine re-implementations and compatibility layers, it gives you a central interface to launch all your games. The client can connect with existing services like Humble Bundle, GOG and Steam to make your game libraries easily available. Game downloads and installations are automated and can be modified through user made scripts. If you have not installed Lutris through your package manager and are using the source package, it is recommended that you install lutris at least once, even an older version to have all dependencies available. Once all dependencies are satisfied, you can run lutris directly from the source directory with ./bin/lutris Optional accounts can be created at lutris.net and linked with Lutris clients. This enables your client to automatically sync fetch library from the website. Via the website, it is also possible to sync your Steam library to your Lutris library. pga.db : An SQLite database tracking the game library, game installation status, various file locations, and some additional metadata Game-specific configurations overwrite runner-specific configurations, which in turn overwrite the system configuration. This will install the game if it is not already installed, otherwise it will launch the game. The game will always be installed if the --reinstall flag is passed. Lutris is 100% community supported, to ensure a continuous development on the project, please consider donating to the project. Our main platform for supporting Lutris is Patreon: but there are also other options available at Want to make Lutris better? Help implement features, fix bugs, test pre-releases, or simply chat with the developers? Improve the code by just cloning the repository, editing the scripts and then starting Lutris with the ./bin/lutris -d command.

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Official website
lutris.net
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source code repository URL
github.com/lutris/lutris
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0.5.22
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3650
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Lutris
official donation page URL
lutris.net/donate
official forum URL
forums.lutris.net
publication date
2009-11-28
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Lutris is a free and open source game manager for Linux-based operating systems developed and maintained by Mathieu Comandon and the community, released under the GNU General Public License.

For games that require using Wine, community installer scripts are available that automatically configure the Wine environment. Lutris also offers integration for software purchased from GOG, Humble Bundle, Steam, and Epic Games Store; those can be launched directly through the Lutris application. Additionally, Lutris supports over 20 emulators including DOSBox, ScummVM, MAME, Snes9x, Dolphin, PCSX2 and PPSSPP.

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