#Installing FBW via Wine on Linux

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pseudo flint
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I went through several days of hardly trying to install the FBW-installer with the help of ChatGPT.

My Specs: Intel i5 7850k, 128gb DDR4 Ram, NVEDIA 1080Ti, Ubuntu 22.04 LTS

Im currently trying to install the FSLTL on my Linux Distribution via Wine and I have a tough time with that. The Installer opens at a new install and shows the changelog. If you press the X to close the log the whole window just gets white. Sadly ChatGPT isn´t the help i expected. I can post errorcodes and crashreports or logs if you want to.

I hope you guys can help. The discord is my last resort.

violet flameBOT
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tribal thorn
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As MSFS is Windows only we do only support Windows itself. Other platforms are not supported (let alone tested)

pseudo flint
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But generall error codes or logs are the same as on windows, right?

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And one other thing... FSLTL is a topic you can help me with? If so is the only way to install that via the FBW Installer?

tribal thorn
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.fsltl

violet flameBOT
pseudo flint
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I got the Installer opened and now its not doing anything. "Something went wrong. Your Community folder is set to C:..." The Installer is not responding to any input and the "Select" button isn´t doing anything aswell.

barren spade
pseudo flint
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No, because wine emulates a windows operating system. Every log and error are the same and also a drive c was created

elfin pebble
undone flower
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Yeah right now we do not officially support Linux with the installer, we don't have the resources to look into overhauling it to add official compatability. Maybe its because there is some code to do with the file paths that is windows specific? I'm really not sure. You could always install on windows, then try moving the final output from FSLTL into your community folder on Linux. I mean that's not a great solution but since FSLTL depends on our installer, and we don't officially support linux with that, there isn't much other choice.

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you could also try manually messing with the config files in appdata to get the right file path, I've also looked into this myself a bit but in the end I just didn't have the time to unpick it

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again this was not developed or tested at first with a multi-OS target in mind, so a lot of the code is hardcoded for a windows install, which because of the differences in filesystem, there's going to be problems.

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I would hazard a guess that it would be probably easier to reverse engineer then rewrite a simple linux cli tool or script to emulate what the installer is doing, rather than trying to overhaul and refactor all that technical debt.