"Protontricks was closed due to the following error"

[brookely42]

Describe the bug Launches protontricks, allows game selection, then crashes with error upon selecting any game.

To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Open Protontricks
2. Select game and click OK
3. Protontricks closes with error

Expected behavior To go into a Winetricks-esque menu, so that I can change things in the wine prefix, among other things

System (please complete the following information):

• Distro: Tuxedo OS 3
• Protontricks installation method: .deb file from Steam website
• Protontricks version: 1.10.5
• Steam version: check if you're running Steam beta; not running any beta

Additional context Trying to use Protontricks to follow various mod manager install guides (Reloaded II, SAModManager). Have successfully done process with Reloaded II install on Linux Mint, Fedora, and earlier install of Tuxedo OS 3.

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 149, in wrapper return cli_func(self, *args, **kwargs) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/protontricks/cli/main.py", line 274, in main proton_app = find_proton_app( ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/protontricks/steam.py", line 821, in find_proton_app tool_app = find_steam_compat_tool_app( ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/protontricks/steam.py", line 610, in find_steam_compat_tool_app appinfo_sections = [ ^ File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/protontricks/steam.py", line 540, in iter_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/brookea/.local/share/Steam Using default Steam Runtime at /home/brookea/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam-runtime WINETRICKS environment variable is not available. Searching from $PATH. Found 2 Steam library folders Currently logged-in Steam user: Steamusername Couldn't find custom shortcuts. Maybe none have been created yet? Using 'zenity' as GUI provider

[Matoking]

Protontricks 1.10.5 is outdated; you need 1.12.0 as the older versions don't support the latest Steam client.

The easiest option might be to install the Flatpak version instead. You can check the instructions here.