Somehow the only winetricks which is offered is from AUR?
pacman doesn’t find it and paru shows only the AUR one?
$ sudo pacman -S winetricks
error: target not found: winetricks
No way! 
pacman -Ss winetricks
Maybe you need to sync repos or something…?
That shouldn’t be the case
@BONK i’m not insane right, you also still have winetricks right? 
Strange?
sudo pacman -Ss winetricks
thomas at hermes in ~
https://archlinux.org/packages/?sort=&q=winetricks&maintainer=&flagged=
Nope, it’s certainly in repos 
I’m not sure what’s wrong with your pacman then…Hopefully someone will help
Ok, I think I’ll revert things and try the Steam/proton route.
That would be this one I guess?
$ paru proton
1 aur/proton 6.3.2-1 [+77 ~1.34]
Compatibility tool for Steam Play based on Wine and additional components
No no…You misread everything ok, if you gonna do Steam i’ll list things you need now
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Make sure you’ve installed / have all requirements
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Re-read Steam section for everything you need to know, but tl;dr you’ll need:
sudo pacman -S steamand then launch Steam from your launcher, get account, buy game and follow 3. Steam 3.1 Setup to know how to enable Proton in Steam client UI and get you started
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That should be it, play
P.S. Stop aur everything it won’t make things stable
P.P.S. I think you still would need to know what’s wrong with your pacman, probably you have multilib disabled or something like that
There is something wrong with my machine, steam isn’t found either. Time for a reboot…
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Perhaps check your:
cat /etc/pacman.conf
Oh, btw once you’ll get through all steps above there’s one additional step to this game so you can enable multiplayer (if that’s what you want) according to protondb community 
This is really strange, I haven’t had any issues updating and installing up to now.
pacman.conf looks ok to me…looks like I got a bigger problem to deal with
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Indeed, sorry to hear that…but i’m pretty sure we’ll figure it out
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Very strange…there’s been a package waiting which installed just fine just 10 minutes ago, so updates seem to work in principle.
Anyway it’s getting late for me, I’ll look int this tomorrow. Will come back to this thread once the package issue is fixed. In any case thanks for helping along
$ sudo pacman -Syyu
:: Synchronizing package databases...
core 131,2 KiB 1874 KiB/s 00:00 [############################################################################] 100%
extra 1600,8 KiB 8,69 MiB/s 00:00 [############################################################################] 100%
community 5,5 MiB 14,8 MiB/s 00:00 [############################################################################] 100%
:: Starting full system upgrade...
there is nothing to do
thomas at hermes in ~
$ paru
:: Synchronizing package databases...
core is up to date
extra is up to date
community is up to date
:: Starting full system upgrade...
there is nothing to do
:: Looking for AUR upgrades
:: Looking for devel upgrades
:: Packages not in the AUR: electron6
:: Marked out of date: etcher-bin
there is nothing to do
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Found the issue, somehow or something has disabled Multilib in pacman.conf?
[multilib]
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
After enabling both of these lines steam was found.
And I made some progress, Steam’s installed, the game’s downloaded but when I run it I get a Windows style
Pure Virtual Function Call
error…which I am looking into right now. It should run out of the box by the look of it though: https://www.protondb.com/app/232890
Have you set Proton for Steam / Game, as i’ve mentioned some places in my guide?
Yes, I set it in the steam UI because it wouldn’t even launch without it. Came up with a “not available for this platform” style error. The error dialog I am getting now is clearly a Windows error which I guess confirms that Proton is used?
Yep, now since you have your pacman fixed, install winetricks we gonna try some wine trickery
P.S. btw, so you’re playing Stronghold Crusader 2 or HD?? You’ve mentioned Stronghold Crusader HD at first
Installing now, looks like it’s pulling down wine as well? So wine and proton now?
Ok, installation completed…ready for the magic
All of them if we get it to work…right now I am trying with Crusader 2, but can happily switch the package, if I remember correctly they were fairly similar.
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Yep, but you don’t have to run wine it’s just required as runtime, we gonna run just winetricks for specific game, gimme a sec i’ll find a command for Stronghol Crusader 2…
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There are also different versions of Proton I can chose from, right now I set it to Proton Experimental.
Oh, then for starters try just latest without experimental - hopefully it will run
Should be something like 6.3 i think
Nope, now configured to use Proton 6.3 but same error. We need magic
Trying Crusader Extreme and HD in parallel