{"id":50641,"date":"2026-02-25T07:25:20","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T07:25:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=50641"},"modified":"2026-02-25T07:25:20","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T07:25:20","slug":"lutris-0-5-22-added-steam-family-sources-new-game-runners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2026\/02\/lutris-0-5-22-added-steam-family-sources-new-game-runners\/","title":{"rendered":"Lutris 0.5.22 added Steam Family Sources &#038; New Game Runners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-50642\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/lutris-icon-250x250.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/lutris-icon-250x250.webp 250w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/lutris-icon-300x300.webp 300w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/lutris-icon-700x700.webp 700w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/lutris-icon-768x768.webp 768w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/lutris-icon.webp 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Lutris, the free open-source game manager for Linux, released new 0.5.20 in last week and then 0.5.22 today.<\/p>\n<p>This version added few new sources to manage more games, and more and updated runners with ability to run more games.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>First, the 0.5.20 version released in last week added &#8220;<b>Steam Family<\/b>&#8221; source, to display and launch steam games shared through steam family feature.<\/p>\n<p>It also added support for managing games from <b>ZOOM platform<\/b>, a GOG-like competitor which provides DRM-free and classic PC games for Windows, Linux, and macOS.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-50643\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/lutris-steamfamily-700x500.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"610\" height=\"436\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/lutris-steamfamily-700x500.webp 700w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/lutris-steamfamily-300x214.webp 300w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/lutris-steamfamily-768x548.webp 768w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/lutris-steamfamily.webp 933w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In addition, it added <b>Azahar runner<\/b> (Nintendo 3DS Emulator), updated TIC-80, EasyRPG, mGBA, Rosalie&#8217;s Mupen GUI, Ruffle, 86Box runners to most recent versions.<\/p>\n<p>And, it added Wine runner option to select Wine&#8217;s &#8220;Wayland driver&#8221;, as well as Ryujinx runner option to specify &#8216;application ID&#8217; for your multi-game XCIs.<\/p>\n<p>Proton-GE, the umu version of Valve&#8217;s Proton, is now the default for the Wine runner. And, it comes with Esync, Fsync, DXVK setting options, as well as DXVK&#8217;s integrated D8VK enabled.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-50644\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/proten-ge-default-700x545.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"610\" height=\"475\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/proten-ge-default-700x545.webp 700w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/proten-ge-default-300x234.webp 300w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/proten-ge-default-768x598.webp 768w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/proten-ge-default.webp 897w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>With the new 0.5.22 (and 0.5.21) version released today, it also supports <b>ShadPS4<\/b> runner for PlayStation 4 and <b>Xenia<\/b> runner for Xbox 360 emulation. And, <i>Dolphin-emu<\/i> runner has been updated to use AppImage, which fixed libavformat dependency issue for old Linux Distributions.<\/p>\n<p>It also added <i>Sniper runtime<\/i> support for running native Linux games in isolated environment with updated libraries for enhanced compatibility and stability, Ubuntu&#8217;s default <i>Ptyxis<\/i> terminal (since 25.10) support for CLI mode, and ICDs support for Intel Xe GPUs.<\/p>\n<p>Other changes include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Double-click <code>.lutris<\/code> installer files to run.<\/li>\n<li>Support for importing Commodore 64 ROMs.<\/li>\n<li>Fix GPU UUID detection for multi-GPU systems.<\/li>\n<li>Add Portuguese (Portugal) language support.<\/li>\n<li>New &#8216;Create Steam Big Picture shortcut&#8217; context menu option.<\/li>\n<li>Option to set game covert-art, banner and icons via URL.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Get Lutris<\/h3>\n<p>For more about the new releases, as well as the source tarball, go to the Github releases page:<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons aligncenter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button is-style-fill\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-vivid-cyan-blue-to-vivid-purple-gradient-background has-text-color has-background\" href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/lutris\/lutris\/releases\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Lutris Github Releases<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The link above also provides <code>.deb<\/code> installer for Debian and Ubuntu based distributions.<\/p>\n<p>For Ubuntu, there&#8217;s also an <a href=\"https:\/\/launchpad.net\/~lutris-team\/+archive\/ubuntu\/lutris\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">official PPA<\/a> so far support Ubuntu 20.04, Ubuntu 22.04, Ubuntu 24.04, and Ubuntu 25.10.<\/p>\n<p>To add the PPA and install\/update the latest Lutris, open terminal and run commands:<\/p>\n<pre>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:lutris-team\/lutris\r\nsudo apt update\r\nsudo apt install lutris<\/pre>\n<p>For other Linux distributions, Lutris is available to install as <a href=\"https:\/\/flathub.org\/en\/apps\/net.lutris.Lutris\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Flatpak package<\/a> which runs in sandbox environment.<\/p>\n<h3>Uninstall:<\/h3>\n<p>To remove Lutris .deb package as well as the PPA, run commands below one by one:<\/p>\n<pre>sudo apt remove lutris<\/pre>\n<pre>sudo add-apt-repository --remove ppa:lutris-team\/lutris<\/pre>\n<pre>sudo apt update<\/pre>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lutris, the free open-source game manager for Linux, released new 0.5.20 in last week and then 0.5.22 today. 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