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I'm trying to run a game called Beneath the Nexus through Wine. The game said I needed .NET Desktop Runtime 5, so I downloaded the Windows installer and installed it. However when running the actual game, I get the following error message:

Message: A fatal error occurred, the required library hostfxr.dll could not be found in [Z:\usr\share\dotnet\host\fxr\5.0.7]

when I run find . | grep hostfxr in my .wine prefix, it finds the right DLL in a few places:

./drive_c/Program Files/dotnet/host/fxr/5.0.7/hostfxr.dll ./drive_c/Program Files (x86)/dotnet/host/fxr/5.0.7/hostfxr.dll

How can I make the game find these DLLs instead of looking in my /usr/share?

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I was able to get the installer working by copying the DLL into the location of the .exe. Not sure why I had to do that, but it worked:

cd ./path/to/game cp ~/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/dotnet/host/fxr/5.0.7/hostfxr.dll .
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Yeah this is an older post, but after 6 hours I've found a solution that's actually annoyingly simple.

When you run Wine through the terminal, all you need to do is add 'DOTNET_ROOT=' and put the Windows path to wherever your dotnet is installed.(By default it is: C:\Program Files\dotnet)

This is how the full command should look:

WINEPREFIX=/PATH/TO/PREFIX DOTNET_ROOT="C:\Program Files\dotnet" wine foo.exe

Hope this helps someone!

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