Lutris is a gaming platform for GNU/Linux. Its goal is to make gaming on Linux as easy as possible by taking care of installing and setting up the game for the user. The only thing you have to do is play the game. It aims to support every game that is playable on Linux.
Features
- Manage your Linux games, Windows games, emulated console games and browser games
- Launch your Steam and Desura games
- Community-written installers to ease up your games’ installation
- More than 20 emulators installed automatically or in a single click, providing support for most gaming systems from the late 70’s to the present day
- Download and play libre and freeware games
There’s a lot more to come, here are some of the planned features that you can expect in future versions:
- Humble Bundle and GOG support
- Mass import of emulator ROMs using the TOSEC database
- Game saves management
- Archive your installation files on external or network drives for a fully automatic installation procedure
- Joystick configuration GUI with keyboard mapping features
- Community features: friends list, chat and multiplayer event planning
Read more for manual how to using Lutris
How to install Lutris on Ubuntu / Debian :
To Install Lutris on Ubuntu 16.10 yakkety Yak, Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial Xerus, Linux Mint 18.1, Linux Mint 18, Debian 8 (Jessie) and other Ubuntu derivative systems, open a new Terminal window and bash (get it?) in the following commands:
For Debian
echo “deb http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/strycore/Debian_8.0/ ./” | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/lutris.list
wget -q http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/strycore/Debian_8.0/Release.key -O- | sudo apt-key add –
For Ubuntu
ver=$(lsb_release -sr); if [ $ver != “14.04” -a $ver != “16.10” -a $ver != “15.10” -a $ver != “16.04” ]; then ver=16.04; fi
echo “deb http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/strycore/xUbuntu_$ver/ ./” | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/lutris.list
wget -q http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/strycore/xUbuntu_$ver/Release.key -O- | sudo apt-key add –
After setting up the repository
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install lutris
After installation is completed, open ubuntu dasshboard and search Lutris :
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