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===== Installing ===== * First, install Battletech via Steam. * Go to the installation location (by default <code>~/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/BATTLETECH/</code>) and make a symbolic link to the <code>BattleTech</code> executable with the name <code>BattleTech.exe</code>. You can do this with the command <code>ln -s BattleTech BattleTech.exe</code>. The RT installer will look for a file by this name later. * Start the latest RT installer with Wine 5.10 or later. You may be prompted to install some mono dependencies; say yes. **Alternative approach - Go to your steam settings, add a Non-Steam game, and find where you put the roguelauncher.exe download off the wiki - this way you dont have to install the entirity of wine for just roguelauncher, seperately from the steam installed runtimes already ***You'll also have to edit the launcher link to force compatibility - I just used proton 8.0-5 ***And set STEAM_COMPAT_MOUNTS=/customMountPoint %command%, if you're outside of /home * In the RT Installer: ** Press the Advanced Mode button to turn on said mode. ** Hit the Browse button for the Install Target field and browse to the <code>Mods</code> directory in the install directory (by default <code>~/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/BATTLETECH/Mods</code>. You will probably need to type <code>.local</code> manually in the selection dialog and press enter from your home directory to get into this hidden directory from the Wine file open dialog. Also, if you copy/paste any paths with slashes in them, you will need to manually change the slashes to backslashes while doing so. ** Press the Set Preferences button. Browse to the <code>BattleTech.exe</code> symlink you created above in the BattleTech.exe path field. Make sure Use Steam Launch is checked. Close this window when done. ** Back in the main window, click Reconfigure RT. Make sure Inject Modtek is chosen near the bottom. Press OK when done. ** Back in the main window, press Update/Install RT and follow the prompts. If you get a small dialogue box with two tiny rectangles in it or similar, focus it and press enter. It should proceed as normal after that. RT should now be installed correctly. **When presented with the installation options, choose to use the old fire and smoke animations (the new ones only show up as pink squares due to shader linking problems under Linux as per the "Known Bugs" list in the changelog). ** Right mouse click on the game in the Steam library -> `Properties...` -> `SET LAUNCH OPTIONS` and set it to `./run.sh %command%`
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