Running Roon on Linux with Wine

This script makes it possible to run Roon on Wine. It creates a separate Wine instance in a folder; this is required for Roon.

Right now the script is very rudimentary: more stuff is coming soon. Keep in mind that you need the following programs to be installed on your Linux system:

• wine
• winetricks
• winecfg
• wget

Wine version

With respect to which version of Wine... this is a bit 'hit-and-miss'.

Install

To install Roon just clone or download this repository and run ./install.sh

Be patient, as installing the necessary components for Wine can take some time. Don't be scared of the messages that flood the console: drink a coffee and wait...

The installation is basically unattended. When the Roon installer starts you will need to click 'Install'.

When finished you can start Roon with ./start_my_roon_instance.sh

UI scaling issues

Wine is not capable (yet) to automatically scale the UI accoring screen resolution. You can however manually adjust the scaling factor by editting the start_my_roon_instance.sh script, change the SCALEFACTOR variable and restart.

• Sensible values are betweein 1.0 and 2.0

Supported distro's

This scripts has been reported to work on:

• ArchLinux
• KDE Neon
• openSUSE
• Fedora
• Ubuntu
• Linux Mint

Ubuntu 20.04 (Focal Fossa) / Linux Mint 20x requires at least 'winehq-stable' (wine version 7.0+) or 'winehq-staging' (wine version 7.22+)

If your distro is missing please leave a note!