UMU-Launcher

Prerequisites

These packages are for Ubuntu/Debian. You need to find equivalent packages for your distro!

These packages are for manual install using .deb. If you're using package manager, your pacman should automatically install all the required dependencies!

• libc6

• libgcc-s1

• python3

• python3-xlib

• apparmor-profiles

• libgl1-mesa-dri:i386

• libglx-mesa0:i386

• libzstd1

How to install

Arch Linux

pacman -Sy --needed umu-launcher

Nobara/Fedora

dnf install umu-launcher

Manual Installation

If your distro doesn't package UMU Launcher, you can manually download it from OpenWineComponets

• Download the .deb files from here, or you can use this terminal command

wget https://github.com/Open-Wine-Components/umu-launcher/releases/download/1.2.5/python3-umu-launcher_1.2.6-1_amd64_debian-12.deb wget https://github.com/Open-Wine-Components/umu-launcher/releases/download/1.2.5/umu-launcher_1.2.6-1_all_debian-12.deb

• Install dependencies

sudo apt install libc6 libgcc-s1 python3 python3-xlib apparmor-profiles libgl1-mesa-dri:i386 libglx-mesa0:i386 libzstd1

• Install the .deb files you downloaded

sudo dpkg --install ~/Downloads/python3-umu-launcher_1.2.6-1_amd64_ubuntu-noble.deb 
sudo dpkg --install ~/Downloads/umu-launcher_1.2.6-1_all_ubuntu-noble.deb

How to use

Since UMU-Launcher is a CLI tool, and basically Proton but without Steam binaries, ideally we utilize .desktop files to run the commands. Sure, you can always type it manually, but if there's a shortcut, why not use that instead?

Command example taken from the Github:

umu-run "$HOME/Games/epic-games-store/drive_c/Program Files (x86)/Epic Games/Launcher/Portal/Binaries/Win32/EpicGamesLauncher.exe" -opengl -SkipBuildPatchPrereq

More info about the commands here

.desktop file example to run VTube Studio and VBridger