Protontricks does not work on Opensuse Tumbleweed and I don't know what to do

Sorry I accidentally deleted the previous post (silly me)

protontricks doesn’t want to work regardless what package format I used (nix, binary flatpaks) everytime I launched it and tried to use it, it returned with the following:

Protontricks was closed due to the following error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python3.11/site-packages/protontricks/cli/util.py", line 159, in wrapper
    return cli_func(self, *args, **kwargs)
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/usr/lib/python3.11/site-packages/protontricks/cli/main.py", line 277, in main
    proton_app = find_proton_app(
                 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/usr/lib/python3.11/site-packages/protontricks/steam.py", line 848, in find_proton_app
    tool_app = find_steam_compat_tool_app(
               ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/usr/lib/python3.11/site-packages/protontricks/steam.py", line 609, in find_steam_compat_tool_app
    appinfo_sections = [
                       ^
  File "/usr/lib/python3.11/site-packages/protontricks/steam.py", line 609, in <listcomp>
    appinfo_sections = [
                       ^
  File "/usr/lib/python3.11/site-packages/protontricks/steam.py", line 531, in iter_appinfo_sections
    raise SyntaxError(
SyntaxError: Invalid file magic number. The appinfo.vdf version might not be supported by the current version of Protontricks - please check for updates.


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Log messages:

Found Steam directory at /home/ace/.local/share/Steam
Using default Steam Runtime at /home/ace/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam-runtime
WINETRICKS environment variable is not available. Searching from $PATH.
Found 1 Steam library folders
Currently logged-in Steam user: vegetotownley
Couldn't find custom shortcuts. Maybe none have been created yet?
Using 'zenity' as GUI provider

does anyone know why am I getting this error? thank you in advance, and sorry for accidentally deleting the post

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it actually worked.

thanks a lot!

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