Simplification of installation process

[bzlom]

What happened

Tried installing the Fallout 2 Restoration Project to Linux Kubuntu 24.04.03.

Followed the guide and the mod wouldn't initialize. Tried manual installation - which is a separate can of worms (recursive renaming of all files and folders under Fallout 2 folder - which could've been automated by in shell script). I gave up on that and installed Bottles which allowed me to execute the mod install file (*.exe) in Linux - which should have installed the mod properly (as it turns out it did). But the mod still didn't initialize.

After 1-2h of searching on forums I've found the missing piece - WINEDLLOVERRIDES="ddraw.dll=n,b" %command%

I'm not sure if this (WINEDLLOVERRIDES='ddraw.dll=n,b' wine fallout2.exe) works in wine, but it isn't working in bottles. A more universal approach of - it works everywhere would be helpful like the one recommended on the forum or some sort of automatization of the process.

What you expected to happen

Apply the mod and the game just works with the new mod

Can we have an updated guide for Linux, ideally with a screenshot which clearly show when the mod is initialized succesfully. This was nother painful point - I had to start the game every time and look for a stone, which took another 30min of searching to find it's exact location by browsing forum threads:

instead of just checking the lower right corner of the main menu when the game starts:

[dlpnd]

On the Readme page, in the Installation section, you will find a link for Linux instructions

[burner1024]

The stone is there for a reason; it's more reliable than main menu.

I don't think there's a sane way way to automate this, given the variety of environments it would have to run on: system wine, non-system wine, playonlinux/mac, Steam, Lutris, these bottles, Crossover, etc. But you're welcome to give it a try.

Same for lowercasing, feel free to try and automate.
I usually just use tolower from weidu pack.