Installation from source

Unless you have a good reason not to use it, it is strongly recommended to install Vinegar using Flatpak.

Running Vinegar and Roblox without Flatpak is prone to issues such as an incorrect Wine build, missing libraries, or improper configuration/installation.

Configuring things properly is possible, but involves effort and debugging if Roblox doesn't work out of the box. That's why using Flatpak is recommended; it sets up and configures everything automatically, so it has the best chance of working smoothly the first time without needing any adjustments.

Please verify that you pass the minimum system requirements before starting any installation.

Installing Wine

Before you can install Vinegar, you will have to install Wine first. You can use the guide for your distribution on the wine wiki. For instance, you can find guides for Arch and Gentoo.

It may also be reccomended to use Proton GE.

It is recommended to ensure that you have installed Wine 8.3 or above on your system, as Roblox requires a minimum version of 8.0 and may encounter stability issues under 8.3.

Build

To build Vinegar from source, you will first need to make sure you have the following dependencies installed:

  • Go >=1.22.0
  • GTK4
  • Libadwaita

Clone Vinegar's git repository and build Vinegar:

$ git clone https://github.com/vinegarhq/vinegar
$ cd vinegar
$ make

Install

To install Vinegar (in the source directory of vinegar):

# make install

This will install Vinegar itself, icons for Roblox and Vinegar, and Vinegar's desktop files.