Problem with installing Aslain's with Wine

[Telamon07]

I am having an issue with installing the Modpack using WINE.  This is my config for drives on WINE, but when I navigate to where WoT is installed, it errors with "Game Client not Detected."  I am not very experienced with .exe programs and running them on Linux.  FYI, I am using WoT on Steam.  I have no idea what the next step should be.

Thanks in advance,

Telamon07

Edited January 3 by Telamon07

[Aslain]

I have no idea how to help you.

[Telamon07]

@Aslain Is there some specific file that the modpack is looking for that I could possibly add?  Or is there a setting to disable the Client check?

[Aslain]

It's not my module, I got it from XVM team. It looks for certain files, the main exe and .xml files from the game root folder IIRC.

[Humpf]

I have just a rough idea of Linux/Wine, but i solved it for my PC (Linux Mint):

Obiously the AddOn needs to be installed to the wine enviroment of WoWs. But wine sets up for each program/game its (partly) own wine enviroment. 

But a "symbolic link" can be added to any installation, so also to that of Aslain. By that Aslain's can be "redirected" to the correct directory of WoWs.

 

My installation of is done via Heroic Games Launcher not steam, but that should be only a small topic. :-)  My main problem was, to find where the symbolic link is needed.

Therfore it needs to be installed via WineTricks or something, sorry do not know that detail for Steam.  at Heroic Game Launcher 

Here it helped me to ignore the Message about "Client not found" and just install it anyway. (Maybe this was not possible before, when you tried to install.)

The installation finishes okay, just needs a bit of patience to finish in the end. 

Now i was able to serch for the new directory "World_of_Warships" in my $home directory, using the file explorer. Just to be on save side, I renamed the directory to old-World_of_Warships. 

Ok, found it at $home/Games/Heroic/Prefixes/default/pfx/drive_c/Games  (But this wil not be the path on your pc. You will need to do your own search).

Now I opend a new window of file explorer, showing the directory of the directory of WOWs. In case of Steam standard path it could :-) be 

$home/.steam/steam/steamapps/common  - You can identify the path in the steam libary, by RMB - properties - intalled files - search.

On my pc (but I changed many settings) it is $home/Games/Heroic/Prefixes/default/pfx/drive_c/Games

Now, for creating the symbolic link: push <shift><ctrl> and hold left mouse buttom on the directory and drag the original folder to the found folder, drop it there. Now a sligtly diffent icon should appear and repesent the symbolic link.(Maybe you would like to test this with an dummy directory, before.)

 

Now you shold be able to reinstall Aslain, but this time the WoWs directory is hopefully available.