Error launching a Wii game in Dolphin via Lutris flatpak

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I recently started working on a Lutris setup (installed through Flathub) and ran into an error trying to launch one of my Wii games with the Dolphin emulator.

Here’s the game logs:

Started initial process 50 from gamemoderun /home/username/.var/app/net.lutris.Lutris/data/lutris/runners/dolphin/dolphin-emu --batch -e /home/username/Shelf/Library/Gaming/Nintendo/Wii/Wii Sports Resort.rvz
Start monitoring process.
/home/username/.var/app/net.lutris.Lutris/data/lutris/runners/dolphin/dolphin-emu: error while loading shared libraries: libQt6Widgets.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Monitored process exited.
Initial process has exited (return code: 32512)
All processes have quit
Exit with return code 32512

And this is the debug log from lutris -d:

INFO 2025-01-10 17:41:20,878 [application.do_command_line:480]:Starting Lutris 0.5.18
INFO 2025-01-10 17:41:20,928 [startup.run_all_checks:120]:“card1” is AMD Radeon Graphics (1002:1638 17aa:3801 amdgpu) Driver 24.3.1
DEBUG 2025-01-10 17:41:21,145 [xrandr.get_resolutions:91]:Retrieving resolution list
DEBUG 2025-01-10 17:41:21,149 [xrandr._get_vidmodes:18]:Retrieving 32 video modes from XrandR
DEBUG 2025-01-10 17:41:21,226 [path_cache._update_missing_games:114]:Checking for missing games
DEBUG 2025-01-10 17:41:21,281 [api.check_stale_runtime_versions:52]:Modified at Fri 10 Jan 2025 03:02:43 PM , will update after Fri 10 Jan 2025 09:02:43 PM
DEBUG 2025-01-10 17:41:21,282 [lutriswindow.create_runtime_updater_cb:1358]:Runtime up to date
DEBUG 2025-01-10 17:41:23,511 [grid.on_item_activated:97]:Item activated: 7
DEBUG 2025-01-10 17:41:23,528 [xrandr.get_outputs:26]:Retrieving display outputs
DEBUG 2025-01-10 17:41:23,532 [xrandr._get_vidmodes:18]:Retrieving 32 video modes from XrandR
Started initial process 50 from gamemoderun /home/username/.var/app/net.lutris.Lutris/data/lutris/runners/dolphin/dolphin-emu --batch -e /home/username/Shelf/Library/Gaming/Nintendo/Wii/Wii Sports Resort.rvz
Start monitoring process.
/home/username/.var/app/net.lutris.Lutris/data/lutris/runners/dolphin/dolphin-emu: error while loading shared libraries: libQt6Widgets.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Monitored process exited.
Initial process has exited (return code: 32512)
All processes have quit
Exit with return code 32512
DEBUG 2025-01-10 17:41:23,749 [monitored_command.on_stop:228]:Process 48 has terminated with code 32512
DEBUG 2025-01-10 17:41:25,548 [game.beat:927]:Game thread stopped
WARNING 2025-01-10 17:41:25,548 [game.on_game_quit:965]:Game still running (state: running)
INFO 2025-01-10 17:41:25,549 [game.stop:938]:Stopping Wii Sports Resort (dolphin)
DEBUG 2025-01-10 17:41:25,550 [game.stop_game:894]:Wii Sports Resort (dolphin) has run for 2 seconds
WARNING 2025-01-10 17:41:25,550 [game.stop_game:896]:The game has run for a very short time, did it crash?
DEBUG 2025-01-10 17:41:25,551 [game.stop_game:906]:Playtime: Less than a minute
DEBUG 2025-01-10 17:41:25,552 [game.on_game_quit:983]:Wii Sports Resort stopped at Fri, 10 Jan 2025 17:41:25
DEBUG 2025-01-10 17:41:25,575 [application.on_game_stopped:793]:Removing 7 from running IDs
DEBUG 2025-01-10 17:41:25,622 [path_cache.add_to_path_cache:47]:Adding Wii Sports Resort (dolphin) to path cache

Steam and Desmume are working just fine for me, in case it’s relevant. Let me know if you need any additional information.

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This line is your emulator-killer:

home/username/.var/app/net.lutris.Lutris/data/lutris/runners/dolphin/dolphin-emu: error while loading shared libraries: libQt6Widgets.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Start by installing that dependency (you might need others) and see how it goes

sudo apt install libqt6widgets

Edit: Horrible assumption on what distro you are running, sorry. Your software install command will vary - use the software update/install tool if you are unfamiliar with CLI

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or second solution, use Dolphin Flatpak instead of Lutris Dolpin runner:

  1. uninstall Dolphin Lutris runner
  2. install Dolphin Flatpak:
    flatpak install flathub org.DolphinEmu.dolphin-emu
  3. make sure you use latest Lutris version 0.5.18
  4. in Lutris, in Lutris Dolphin runner options, “Custom executable for the runner” field:
    org.DolphinEmu.dolphin-emu
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I’m running Arch Linux, which apparently doesn’t include that package.

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Aye sorry :slight_smile: pacman -S dolphin-emu then, and custom exe :slight_smile:

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