In this guide I will teach you how to install FallOut Script Extender on Linux.

We need to create a 64 bit Wine bottle for a program we will be using later, if you already have a 64 bit bottle you can skip this section.

Everyone else, don't be worried it's extremely easy.

1. Create a folder, which will be where our bottle is created.
   
   mkdir ~/64bitbottle/
2. Get Wine to create the bottle.
   
   WINEPREFIX=~/64bitbottle/ WINEARCH=win64 winecfg
   Note: Where it says 'WINEPREFIX=~/64bitbottle/' put the path to your folder you created earlier.
   
3. Once the winecfg window opens, just close it.
   
4. Back at the terminal install winetricks
   
   sudo pacman -S winetricks
   Note: The command example above is just for Arch-based distros, use the appropriate package manager for your distro.
   
5. Now winetricks is installed, we will install Visual C++ 2013 and 2019 Redistributables
   
   WINEPREFIX=~/64bitbottle/ winetricks vcrun2013 vcrun2019
   Just click through the pop-ups as you would in Windows.

Done. Feel free to delete this bottle at the end of the guide, if you don't want it taking up space. You can do that by just deleting the folder.

So next we need to downgrade our game, since the newest update broke a few things. Don't worry, we are going to use a pre-made tool to do this for us.

1. Download Fallout Anniversary Patcher [www.nexusmods.com] and extract the files.
   
2. Navigate to your Fallout 3 directory, where the 'Fallout3.exe' is, and copy all of the files from Fallout Anniversary Patcher.
   Note: You can find the game in your steam library, right click, goto properties and browse local files.
   
3. Once you've copied all of the files that came with Fallout Anniversary Patcher, open a terminal in the Fallout 3 directory.
   
4. Run the 'Patcher.exe' with your 64 bit wine bottle as your prefix.
   
   WINEPREFIX=~/bottles/64bitprefix/ wine Patcher.exe
   It will tell you to press any button to close, just press enter.

Your game has been patched! By using this program we downloaded, you also get a few other benefits which you can find listed on the mod page.

Finally, we are at the easiest part of this whole thing.

1. Download FallOut Script Extender [fose.silverlock.org] and choose the stable version.
   
2. Extract ALL files in the folder into your Fallout 3 directory

That is all, just copy all of the files into your Fallout 3 directory; and you're done.

To test it all worked, all we are going to do is open up the game. You don't have to click on any specific .exe just open the game like you would any other game in Steam.

Once at the main menu, open up the in-game console by pressing the tilde (~) key. Type 'getfoseversion' and press enter, if you get a message in the console telling you your FOSE version then congratulations you've just installed FOSE.

If you get an error 'command not found' or something along those lines, check that everything was done correctly. Make sure you ran the 'Patcher.exe' with a 64 bit prefix; otherwise you will get a 'Bad EXE' error.

If you've done everything right, and it still hasn't worked; let me know in the comments and I'll try and help.

This guide wouldn't have been possible without a few people, so a big thank you to:

Nbkdelta1 Playthroughs on YouTube for uploading how to get fallout 3 script extender to work on steam version 2022 - Without knowing how to patch it on Windows I couldn't have made this guide for Linux.

Ian Patterson (ianpatt), Stephen Abel (behippo), and Paul Connelly (scruggsywuggsy the ferret) for creating Fallout Script Extender - Which obviously helped a lot for this guide.