Can’t install any game launchers

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Hello I am fairly new to linux and I just installed lutris with arch. Currently I cannot install any of the launchers like rockstar games or epic and these are my specs : 󰣇 OS : Arch Linux
 Kernel : 6.14.4-arch1-1
󰏗 Packages : 903 (pacman), 37 (flatpak-user)
󰍹 Display : 1920x1080 @ 60Hz [External]
 Terminal : kitty 0.41.1
󱗃 WM : Hyprland
 CPU : AMD Ryzen 7 2700 @ 3.20 GHz
󰊴 GPU : AMD AMD Radeon RX 580 Series
 GPU Driver : amdgpu
 Memory : 16 GiB
can anyone guide me pls🙏

This is the error I am getting

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lutris-wrapper: /home/themis/.local/share/lutris/runtime/winetricks/winetricks
Started initial process 34804 from /home/themis/.local/share/lutris/runtime/winetricks/winetricks -q corefonts
Start monitoring process.
Executing cd /home/themis/.local/share/lutris/runtime/winetricks
wget: WGETRC points to /home/themis/.config/wgetrc, which couldn’t be accessed because of error: Permission denied.

warning: Github down? version ‘’ doesn’t appear to be a valid version

warning: You are using a 64-bit WINEPREFIX. Note that many verbs only install 32-bit versions of packages. If you encounter problems, please retest in a clean 32-bit WINEPREFIX before reporting a bug.

Using winetricks 20250102-next - sha256sum: d00f5634463f5ed00e3af93160e827cb99ab8c647fe7b31848fed806dac50eb5 with wine-8.0-3001-g39021e609a2 (Staging) and WINEARCH=win64
Executing w_do_call corefonts
Executing load_corefonts
Executing w_do_call andale
Executing load_andale
grep: warning: stray \ before /
Executing cd /home/themis/.cache/winetricks/corefonts
Downloading https:/: github.com/pushcx/corefonts/raw/master/andale32.exe to /home/themis/.cache/winetricks/corefonts
wget: WGETRC points to /home/themis/.config/wgetrc, which couldn’t be accessed because of error: Permission denied.
wget: WGETRC points to /home/themis/.config/wgetrc, which couldn’t be accessed because of error: Permission denied.
wget: WGETRC points to /home/themis/.config/wgetrc, which couldn’t be accessed because of error: Permission denied.
Executing cd /home/themis/.cache/winetricks/corefonts
Downloading l://web.archive.org/web/2000/://github.com/pushcx/corefonts/raw/master/andale32.exe to /home/themis/.cache/winetricks/corefonts
wget: WGETRC points to /home/themis/.config/wgetrc, which couldn’t be accessed because of error: Permission denied.
------------------------------------------------------warning: Downloading://web.archive.org/web/2000/://github.com//corefonts/raw/master/andale32.exe failed

Monitored process exited.
Initial process has exited (return code: 256)
All processes have quit
Exit with return code 256

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Sorry I coudlnt get Ubuntu pastebin to verify my account there seems to be a bug so I posted the error directly and removed the https from the links.Sorry for the inconvenience…

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Your logs show missing permission to access a folder or file:

wget: WGETRC points to /home/themis/.config/wgetrc, which couldn’t be accessed because of error: Permission denied.

Either Lutris/Winetricks tries to read the file, or write it. Usually such errors occur, when the folder/file has been created with root rights and the access happens with user rights.

If you run the command
ls -la ~/.config/

it’ll list all the files and folders within, including the (r)ead, (w)rite and e(x)ecute permissions for each of (u)ser, (g)roup and (o)thers. The user and group of each item in this folder is usually or the equivalent <1000>.

If either of it is ‘root’, a user or program with only ‘user’ or ‘other’ rights, which doesn’t own it, cannot perform access types only set for a higher UGO hierarchy.

So you’ll should adapt the user and group execute in the terminal:
sudo chown [USERNAME]:[USERNAME] [FILE]

And add the missing permissions, e. g. (where group and others miss read permission):
sudo chmod go +r [FILENAME]

Also run and see:
man chmod

Another thing:

Arch-based distros are not exactly the best option for users new to Linux, they are usually rather bleeding edge and rolling release. This often leads to breaking dependencies for your system and/or programs regularly, where manual intervention and advanced know-how is required to resolve them.

So, while you’ll in theory always have ‘the latest and greatest’ versions and improvements there, you’ll have to be prepared to fix problems regularly, which tend to occur after the numerous updates. This happened to me several times in succession with Manjaro, until it seemed pointless to me as a gaming system, where you’ll usually expect decent stability, in order to enjoy a good gaming experience.

You should probably consider switching to a more beginner-friendly OS, e. g. one based on Ubuntu (which is based on Debian unstable), or a Debian unstable or stable derivative, like Linux Mint.

You should probably consult distrowatch.org and ditrochooser.org as a decision helper, too.

Also consider try using a Proton/GE prefix instead of vanilly Wine, since the first is optimized for gaming, unless you’re trying to run some really old software.