I am a new user of Lutris, and after having gotten a high end gaming PC, I wanted to give the best shot that I could with games that I hadn’t been able to play on PC before. As such, my hope was to download the Vortex Mod Manager. I had heard that it was capable of being run on Lutris, so I was excited to try. Unfortunately, it appears as though I have to get the .NET 6.0 prefix in order to get it to work. I was unable to download the prefix through Winetricks via the GUI, so I went into the Lutris folder directly and opened it there. I was able to do that easily enough, and was able to download the prefix. However, for whatever reason, Lutris doesn’t seem to recognize the .exe files when I try to select them in the configuration, as all my options are grayed out.
It was at that point that I decided to go back to try and and get Winetricks to work in hopes of fixing the error. I had read that updating Lutris was a valid option. However, it appears as though my version is currently up to date (0.5.19), and it was at that point I felt like I hit a brick wall and needed to come to the forums for advice.
This is the error I receive whenever I attempt to open Winetricks: No wine prefix path given.
The following is the detailed error report given:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/app/lib/python3.11/site-packages/lutris/exception_backstops.py", line 79, in error_wrapper
return handler(*args, **kwargs)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/app/lib/python3.11/site-packages/lutris/gui/widgets/game_bar.py", line 266, in on_link_button_clicked
callback(button)
File "/app/lib/python3.11/site-packages/lutris/runners/wine.py", line 959, in run_winetricks
winetricks(
File "/app/lib/python3.11/site-packages/lutris/runners/commands/wine.py", line 452, in winetricks
return wineexec(
^^^^^^^^^
File "/app/lib/python3.11/site-packages/lutris/runners/commands/wine.py", line 321, in wineexec
create_prefix(prefix, wine_path=wine_bin, arch=arch, runner=runner)
File "/app/lib/python3.11/site-packages/lutris/runners/commands/wine.py", line 105, in create_prefix
raise ValueError("No Wine prefix path given")
ValueError: No Wine prefix path given
Lutris log:
[INFO:2025-08-16 02:19:50,052:application]: Starting Lutris 0.5.19
[INFO:2025-08-16 02:19:50,069:startup]: "card1" is AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT (1002:7550 1849:5414 amdgpu) Driver 25.0.7
[ERROR:2025-08-16 02:20:39,068:exception_backstops]: Error handling signal 'clicked': No Wine prefix path given
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/app/lib/python3.11/site-packages/lutris/exception_backstops.py", line 79, in error_wrapper
return handler(*args, **kwargs)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/app/lib/python3.11/site-packages/lutris/gui/widgets/game_bar.py", line 266, in on_link_button_clicked
callback(button)
File "/app/lib/python3.11/site-packages/lutris/runners/wine.py", line 959, in run_winetricks
winetricks(
File "/app/lib/python3.11/site-packages/lutris/runners/commands/wine.py", line 452, in winetricks
return wineexec(
^^^^^^^^^
File "/app/lib/python3.11/site-packages/lutris/runners/commands/wine.py", line 321, in wineexec
create_prefix(prefix, wine_path=wine_bin, arch=arch, runner=runner)
File "/app/lib/python3.11/site-packages/lutris/runners/commands/wine.py", line 105, in create_prefix
raise ValueError("No Wine prefix path given")
ValueError: No Wine prefix path given
[ERROR:2025-08-16 02:25:35,457:exception_backstops]: Error handling signal 'clicked': No Wine prefix path given
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/app/lib/python3.11/site-packages/lutris/exception_backstops.py", line 79, in error_wrapper
return handler(*args, **kwargs)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/app/lib/python3.11/site-packages/lutris/gui/widgets/game_bar.py", line 266, in on_link_button_clicked
callback(button)
File "/app/lib/python3.11/site-packages/lutris/runners/wine.py", line 959, in run_winetricks
winetricks(
File "/app/lib/python3.11/site-packages/lutris/runners/commands/wine.py", line 452, in winetricks
return wineexec(
^^^^^^^^^
File "/app/lib/python3.11/site-packages/lutris/runners/commands/wine.py", line 321, in wineexec
create_prefix(prefix, wine_path=wine_bin, arch=arch, runner=runner)
File "/app/lib/python3.11/site-packages/lutris/runners/commands/wine.py", line 105, in create_prefix
raise ValueError("No Wine prefix path given")
ValueError: No Wine prefix path given
My system is Linux Mint 22.1 with the 6.14 kernel, AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D 8-Core Processor × 8, and Radeon RX 9070
I have been using Linux for a little under a year now, but I still am learning my way through how things work. Clarity in directions would be greatly appreciated, thank you!