Installing Wine and Grapejuice

You will need Wine, Winetricks and Grapejuice.

Some notes

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This guide was done on a Virtual Machine This guide has been tested on VMWare and not on an actual, physical machine. However, things should still work the same, especially considering how Ubuntu is user-friendly.

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Installing Wine

Wine problems with multiple graphic cards Wine will have issues running if you have multiple graphic cards. For example, if you are using a laptop with both Intel and Nvidia cards, you must figure out how to use the Nvidia card instead.

Wine version This guide uses Wine 8.5.

Wine can easily be installed from the terminal. However, the Wine versions from Ubuntu are outdated, so you will need to obtain Wine from WineHQ instead.

$ sudo mkdir -pm755 /etc/apt/keyrings
$ sudo wget -O /etc/apt/keyrings/winehq-archive.key https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/winehq.key

Different versions of Ubuntu use different sources. Select your current Ubuntu version and run the following command (WineHQ instructions for Ubuntu).

Ubuntu Version	Command
23.04	$ sudo wget -NP /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu/dists/lunar/winehq-lunar.sources
22.10	$ sudo wget -NP /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu/dists/kinetic/winehq-kinetic.sources
22.04 LTS	$ sudo wget -NP /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu/dists/jammy/winehq-jammy.sources
20.04 LTS	$ sudo wget -NP /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu/dists/focal/winehq-focal.sources

Update the package information.

$ sudo apt update

We can now install Wine.

$ sudo apt install --install-recommends winehq-stable

You may also choose to use wine-staging instead.

$ sudo apt install --install-recommends winehq-staging

Possible problems with wine-mono Installing wine-mono could be problematic when it come to installing .NET Framework dependencies. If wine-mono is already installed, you can uninstall it using sudo pacman -R wine-mono.

Installing Winetricks

After installing Wine, we may now install Winetricks.

% sudo apt install winetricks

You must then make sure Winetricks is updated.

$ sudo winetricks --self-update

Zenity will also be neded for the Grapejuice UI, which we will see in the next step. Ubuntu usually comes installed with Zenity, but just to be safe, make sure to run this command.

$ sudo apt install zenity

Installing Grapejuice

Grapejuice is a wrapper that allows for Roblox to be played on Linux. However, you will need to that the Grapejuice source into Ubuntu (read more here).

$ sudo apt install curl # Just in case curl isn't installed
$ curl https://gitlab.com/brinkervii/grapejuice/-/raw/master/ci_scripts/signing_keys/public_key.gpg | sudo tee /usr/share/keyrings/grapejuice-archive-keyring.gpg
$ sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/grapejuice.list <<< 'deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/grapejuice-archive-keyring.gpg] https://brinkervii.gitlab.io/grapejuice/repositories/debian/ universal main'
$ sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y

Grapejuice can now be installed.

$ sudo apt install -y grapejuice

Afterwards, open the UI for Grapejuice.

$ grapejuice-gui

You will be greeted with a UI that looks like this.

Click on "Open Roblox App", and wait for Grapejuice to finish setting up Roblox. Once that is done, click on "Player" on the menu in the left.

This is what you should see. After Roblox is downloaded, you must reboot. Dependencies installed from Winetricks will be installed after the reboot.