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Always wise to hide personal details on the internet.. 🙂 Anyways, running WoT via Lutris is fine, good. Aslains modinstaller however needs to be ran within this same "container*" - Lutris makes a separate "container" for each game. To do it, you want to copy the Aslain*.exe installer someplace where the game is (/<hdd>/<username>/LUTRIS Games/world-of-tanks/drive_c/Games/) and in Lutris clicking the Wine-glass and "Run EXE inside Wine prefix" executed. Personally I avoid spaces in directory names, but I'm an old fart from times when they were not allowed 😄 * with container I do not mean docker or containers on servers, just that the game install is kind of separated from everything else.

Hello fellow Linux users.. I recently helped Aslain make the installer work more reliably on Linux and it should work now as well as on Windows. Some of you however have odd ways running the Aslains modpack installer, so I decided to write this short guide. This is how I recommend installing Aslains modpack for someone who uses Linux but might not be a guru. I assume that you have a normal Linux install (openSUSE, Mint, Arch, Ubuntu, Fedora or what ever distro you prefer) and that you have already Lutris and World of Tanks installed and have played World of Tanks and know that the game is working. As a general advice, while using Lutris/Wine running modinstallers or other exe-files, copy your windows-executable inside the games install-directory within drive_c and always in Lutris/Wine run it from the 😄 drive, not from Z: where your whole Linux-filesystem is exposed. I use the term file-manager, some call it file explorer or something else.. where you open directories and files. Please note that your window colors and style might differ from my screenshots - I prefer KDE and dark themes: - Download Aslains modpack like you would normally. I will refer to this file in this post as "Aslains_WoT_Modpack_Installer_<version>.exe". - In Lutris, select World of Tanks and below, next to "Play" from the up-arrow, pick "Browse Files" (not "Hide game from Library" - don't know why it remains highlighted in screenshot) - From the file-manager window that opened, browser to "drive_c" -> "Games". - Open a new file-manager window and browse to your Download directory where you downloaded Aslain's modpack. - Copy Aslains_WoT_Modpack_Installer_<version>.exe to "Games" directory in file-manager you opened via Lutris. - In Lutris, still with World of Tanks selected, click the small Wine-glass and from menu select "Run EXE inside Wine prefix" (do not pick "Wine Control Panel"): - Browse to where you just copied the installer, "drive_c" -> "Games", select the installer "Aslains_WoT_Modpack_Installer_<version>.exe", OK. - Installer starts, pick language. Installer should automatically detect install location (C:\Games\World_of_Tanks_EU for me at least) pick mods etc... Install. Finish (donate? 🙂 ). Start World of Tanks and enjoy. If mods or images are missing, in directory where Aslains logs are found _Aslains_movetree_command_*.log files last lines should be xcopy /y /s "version\*.*" "1.19.0.2" >nul 2>nul - if not, Wine was not detected correctly by installer (it looks for $WINE environment variable) and I would be very interested to see what the command "SET" outputs when ran from "Open Wine console" (small Wine-glass button/menu). Edit, might be easier to "Open Bash terminal" and copy&paste what command env | grep -i wine outputs. -angulion

Sorry for the delay @Aslain and thank you very much for looking into this special Linux issue. Probably other users may get some benefit from resolving it. Unfortunately it wasn't (still not sure if I picked the right logs or found the right folder) easy to find the actual installation folder for the Lutris+Wine drive c : packeges. Using Lutris as base to get the latest Proton stuff, as I'm not that deep into Wine. I'm attaching the logs I've found in a sub-sub-subdrive n : -folder containing the requested logfiles. The timestamp is fitting, so I guess I attached the right ones. Using the method explained for the windows user only opened up a frame containing the right files, but I wasn't able to actually do anything with them, like copy or move, so it was only a view of the right files, but not the actually files. Just to explain the problematics finding the right folders, while running WoT with Lutris and Wine on my Arch Linux. So, yes, using Wine under Lutris. Your modpack, latest availible from this website, installs fine starting it with Wine installer. All the required game folders seem to be found. Your installer takes his time to show the checklist seems to me like a Wine background operation causing a slight delay, but the installation is fast. Actually I de-checked the sound files for 1. engine sounds and 2. gun sounds until I can solve this issue properly. Besides the sound-mod-issue, I also encountered following two issues: - in-game tank icons do not match the checked ones from the modpack - research tree icons and carussel tank icons do not match the checked (Aslain + golden premium tanks, but also no others from that list are working for me) Installation for the modpack runs until 99% then I encountered following issue lined out in another thread covering a snapshot to explain. Seems the installer isn't aware of the needed paths and therefore the installation of those icons do not work. I for myself do not know what to choose on that frame, so I only quitted that frame and the installation finished.