Update lutris from a distro store version

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So I’ve installed lutris from the distro I’m using (Linux Mint 22.3) and got all my games running, and find that because the version from the distro store is old (5.14 something, vs. 5.22 something as of this writing), I can’t sync with itch.io. So I’d like to upgrade to the latest version, but all the reports I read mirror my experience that the lutris ppa can’t be added. So no chance to use “apt update”.

How can I best update without losing all my work? I don’t want to open a copy of lutris that doesn’t know about any of my games and have to manually add them and edit configuration files, or even worse redownload everything just to get the installer to set up the new lutris.

Thanks for general suggestions; I’ll google around after that if necessary.

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If your current installation is with apt, it’s quite simple. Here’s what I did:
Go to Releases · lutris/lutris · GitHub and download lutris_0.5.22_all.deb (direct link: lutris_0.5.22_all.deb)
Run sudo apt install /path/to/lutris_0.5.22_all.deb
And it will install the deb as an update.

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Also alternatively after downloading you can just doubleclick the .deb and it will bring up a gui to install it, but you’ll need to ignore a warning about an older version being available in the repositories.

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Worked brilliantly, thanks. Obviously an easy one, but it’s hard to know if that just overwrites everything as ‘brand new’ or keeps the existing user settings as it installs. So thankful it works.