"Protontricks was closed due to the following error"

[LividLiquid]

Describe the bug Launches, allows me to select game, then crashes with error message.

To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior: 1.) Launch Protontricks

2. Select Game

Expected behavior Program launches

System (please complete the following information):

• Distro: Ubuntu 22.0.4
• Protontricks installation method: Have tried Apt, Discover, and Snap Store.
• Protontricks version: 1.7.0
• Steam version: 1687386907

Error Message:

Protontricks was closed due to the following error:

Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/protontricks/cli/util.py", line 143, in wrapper return cli_func(self, *args, **kwargs) File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/protontricks/cli/main.py", line 214, in main proton_app = find_proton_app( File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/protontricks/steam.py", line 624, in find_proton_app tool_app = find_steam_compat_tool_app( File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/protontricks/steam.py", line 537, in find_steam_compat_tool_app tool_appid = get_tool_appid(compat_tool_name, appinfo_path) File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/protontricks/steam.py", line 418, in get_tool_appid vdf_sections = get_appinfo_sections(appinfo_path) File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/protontricks/steam.py", line 385, in get_appinfo_sections raise SyntaxError("Invalid file magic number") SyntaxError: Invalid file magic number

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Please include this entire error message when making a bug report. Log messages:

Found Steam directory at /home/lividliquid/.steam/steam. You can also define Steam directory manually using $STEAM_DIR Using default Steam Runtime at /home/lividliquid/.steam/root/ubuntu12_32/steam-runtime WINETRICKS environment variable is not available. Searching from $PATH. Found 1 Steam library folders Currently logged-in Steam user: lividliquid@yahoo.com Found 2 Steam shortcuts running using Steam compatibility tools Using 'zenity' as GUI provider

[Matoking]

You need to update your Protontricks to at least version 1.10.1.

Since Ubuntu only updates their packages biannually (apart from security fixes) in releases (eg. Ubuntu 23.04 is the latest, 22.10 is the previous release), it's recommended to install Protontricks from Flathub or using pipx instead. You can check the instructions here.

[LividLiquid]

Thank you. That worked. Boy howdy, those repositories are always, always, always out of date.

Took me an embarrassingly long time to learn this lesson.