Installation

We currently only offer Bottles as a flatpak package

The Flatpak package is the only fully sandboxed version. It bundles all the needed dependencies and tools and works on most distributions supported by Flatpak.

This is the most supported and tested release of Bottles.

Bottles Flatpak also provide a Beta channel for testing purpose, maintained by our community. 1. Add the Flathub beta remote:

flatpak remote-add --user flathub-beta https://flathub.org/beta-repo/flathub-beta.flatpakrepo
flatpak update --appstream

2. Then install Bottles:

flatpak install --user flathub-beta com.usebottles.bottles

We need the following dependencies:

org.gnome.Sdk.Compat.i386
org.freedesktop.Sdk.Extension.toolchain-i386

Download the latest bottles source from GitHub:

wget -O bottles-source.zip https://github.com/bottlesdevs/Bottles/archive/main.zip
unzip bottles-source.zip
cd Bottles-main

Build can be performed using flatpak-builder (installable using your distribution package manager like apt, dnf, ..):

flatpak-builder --repo=bottles --force-clean --user build-dir com.usebottles.bottles.yml
flatpak remote-add --user bottles bottles --no-gpg-verify
flatpak install --user bottles com.usebottles.bottles

Then run using flatpak command:

flatpak run com.usebottles.bottles