Lutris reports "no Wine" instalation

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Using Bazzite ( FC42) in an old Xeon, 2 x Nvidia graphic cards K620.

When calling the first time Lutris it reports as needing to install several itens including Wine.
If I try to install manually via the Lutris (+) wizard some games do install correctly ( at least the install wizard end with success) .

But the newly created lnk shortcut file indicates : no executable available.

In some games ( BOTF) I get to the point where the game installer ( installshield) allowed to play the game imediatly after instalation ( with sucess) to be greeted afterwards with the installation failure …
In resulting log error I see a “missing Wine” line entries …

How do I start to debug and help with this ? )

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.lnk is not the shortcut format for Linux, .desktop is. When you try to launch a .lnk file, Linux reads it as a Windows file type that by default is handled by Wine or one of its front-ends. But there isn’t a system-level Wine installed. Lutris does not install stuff to system level, it only does so to its own ~/.local/share folder (nor is it supposed to).

You can run stuff from the .lnk file, but I don’t recommend it. Instead, get the front-ends like Lutris, Bottles, Heroic, or Steam to generate its own .desktop shortcut. That will generate the right shortcut, with the right runner, using the wineprefix it’s supposed to, instead of messing around with complicated Wine commands.

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