Hi folks!,

I'm trying to install a few WeiDU mods on BG:EE on Linux and running into grief.

Firstly, while the latest version of WeiDU (237, freshly downloaded) is supposed to find dialog.tlk automatically, I have to link it into the game/ folder from lang/en_US/dialog.tlk for WeiDU to proceed.

However, this doesn't help much, because when I run setup-bgqe (the first mod I'm trying to install), I get:

ERROR: could not match a directory in ./dialog.tlk
ERROR: problem parsing TP file [bgqe/setup-bgqe.tp2]: Not_found
FATAL ERROR: Not_found

Anyone got a clue what I'm doing wrong?

Thanks!
~Celti

Okay, I've resolved my issue after some judicious googling.

The problem is that WeiDU on Linux expects everything to be lower-cased, while BG:EE doesn't like it if you lowercase everything.

The solution is to use the second script from this post: askubuntu.com/questions/535999/lowercase-to-all-files-in-a-directory-expecting-to-undo-it-at-some-point/536012 #536012 to recursively lowercase all files, install your mods, then run the generated restore scripts to uppercase the files.

Hope this helps anyone else having issues!

thx, useful.

i found this solution a bit buggy, so i have made my own

#!/bin/bash

IFS=$'\n'
WORKING_PATH=$(pwd $1)

RESTORE_FILENAME="$WORKING_PATH/restore_case.sh"

echo "#!/bin/bash" > "$RESTORE_FILENAME"
chmod a+x "$RESTORE_FILENAME"


for FILEPATH in $(find . -type f)
do
FILENAME="${FILEPATH##*/}"
LOWER_FILE="${FILEPATH::-${#FILENAME}}${FILENAME,,}"

if [ "$LOWER_FILE" != "$FILEPATH" ]; then
echo moving "$FILEPATH" to "$LOWER_FILE"
echo mv \""$LOWER_FILE"\" \""$FILEPATH"\" >> "$RESTORE_FILENAME"_files
mv "$FILEPATH" "$LOWER_FILE"
fi
done

touch "$RESTORE_FILENAME"_dirs

for DIRPATH in $(find . -type d -printf "%d%p\n"|sort -nr)
do
DIRPATH=${DIRPATH:1}
DIRNAME="${DIRPATH##*/}"
LOWER_DIRPATH="${DIRPATH::-${#DIRNAME}}${DIRNAME,,}"
if [ "$LOWER_DIRPATH" != "$DIRPATH" ]; then
echo moving "$DIRPATH" to "$LOWER_DIRPATH"
echo -e "mv \""$LOWER_DIRPATH"\" \""$DIRPATH"\"\n$(cat "$RESTORE_FILENAME"_dirs)" > "$RESTORE_FILENAME"_dirs
mv "$DIRPATH" "$LOWER_DIRPATH"
fi
done

cat "$RESTORE_FILENAME"_dirs "$RESTORE_FILENAME"_files >> "$RESTORE_FILENAME"
rm "$RESTORE_FILENAME"_dirs "$RESTORE_FILENAME"_files

echo rm '$0' >> "$RESTORE_FILENAME"

Well met!

2019 seems a good year to update this post.

BG:EE (v2.5)
Linux (LUbuntu 18.04)
HDD is ext4
shell is bash
WeiDU (version 24600: "Land of Confusion")

This method doesn't rename files, instead creates links to files.
Doesn't make backups. Backup first, just in case.


Simply:


(1) Go to game directory

cd 'GOG Games/Baldurs Gate Enhanced Edition/game'


(2) Change the case of the directory where your default dialog.tlk resides. in my case i use English language, so i change "en_US". There are several directories in lang for different languages.

ln -s lang/en_US lang/en_us


(3) On to the data directory. this creates links. the original file can have any-case in the filename, but all the links will have lowercase characters.

cd data
for file in *; do ln -s "$file" `echo "$file" | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]'`; done

The for loop might spew out errors since IIRC one file has a filename already all lowercase, thus the ln command will fail.

To find all the links created:

find . -type l

You can extend that command to delete all the links if needed:

find . -type l -exec rm {} \;

(copy everything until the semicolon)


(4) Run weinstall


I assume this will also work with BG2:EE and IWD:EE. I own both, and will test soon.

I've tested this with cdtweaks and stratagems. Of course BG:EE still runs (started a new adventure and just got out of Candlekeep). weidu.log follows:
-----
xxx@xxxxx:~/GOG Games/Baldurs Gate Enhanced Edition/game$ cat weidu.log
// Log of Currently Installed WeiDU Mods
// The top of the file is the 'oldest' mod
// ~TP2_File~ #language_number #component_number // [Subcomponent Name -> ] Component Name [ : Version]
~CDTWEAKS/SETUP-CDTWEAKS.TP2~ #0 #100 // Commoners Use Drab Colors: v9
~CDTWEAKS/SETUP-CDTWEAKS.TP2~ #0 #2090 // Change Experience Point Cap -> Remove Experience Cap: v9
~CDTWEAKS/SETUP-CDTWEAKS.TP2~ #0 #2140 // Expanded Dual-Class Options: v9
~CDTWEAKS/SETUP-CDTWEAKS.TP2~ #0 #2151 // Wear Multiple Protection Items -> No Restrictions: v9
~CDTWEAKS/SETUP-CDTWEAKS.TP2~ #0 #2220 // Change Magically Created Weapons to Zero Weight: v9
~CDTWEAKS/SETUP-CDTWEAKS.TP2~ #0 #2350 // Alter Multiclass Restrictions -> Allow humans to multiclass: v9
~CDTWEAKS/SETUP-CDTWEAKS.TP2~ #0 #2440 // Everyone Gets Bonus APR from Specialization: v9
~CDTWEAKS/SETUP-CDTWEAKS.TP2~ #0 #2520 // Allow Mages to Use Bucklers and Thieves to Use Small Shields (Angel): v9
~CDTWEAKS/SETUP-CDTWEAKS.TP2~ #0 #2530 // Lightning Bolts Don't Bounce (Angel): v9
~CDTWEAKS/SETUP-CDTWEAKS.TP2~ #0 #2999 // Max HP at Level One: v9
~CDTWEAKS/SETUP-CDTWEAKS.TP2~ #0 #3000 // Higher HP on Level Up -> Maximum: v9
~CDTWEAKS/SETUP-CDTWEAKS.TP2~ #0 #3012 // Maximum HP for NPCs (the bigg) -> For Party-Joinable NPCs Only: v9
~CDTWEAKS/SETUP-CDTWEAKS.TP2~ #0 #3060 // Remove "You Must Gather Your Party..." Sound (Weimer): v9
~CDTWEAKS/SETUP-CDTWEAKS.TP2~ #0 #3080 // Increase Ammo Stack Size -> Unlimited Ammo Stacking: v9
~CDTWEAKS/SETUP-CDTWEAKS.TP2~ #0 #3100 // Increase Potion Stacking -> Unlimited Potion Stacking: v9
~CDTWEAKS/SETUP-CDTWEAKS.TP2~ #0 #3280 // Give Every Class/Kit Four Weapon Slots: v9
~CDTWEAKS/SETUP-CDTWEAKS.TP2~ #0 #3290 // Personalize automatic save names -> Use scheme: 000000000-Protagonist-Save-Name: v9
~CDTWEAKS/SETUP-CDTWEAKS.TP2~ #0 #3330 // Make party members less likely to die irreversibly: v9
~CDTWEAKS/SETUP-CDTWEAKS.TP2~ #0 #3340 // Increase party movement speed outside combat -> By 50 percent: v9
~STRATAGEMS/SETUP-STRATAGEMS.TP2~ #0 #3010 // Replace +1 arrows and other projectiles with nonmagical "fine" ones: v32.7
~STRATAGEMS/SETUP-STRATAGEMS.TP2~ #0 #5000 // Ease-of-use party AI: v32.7
-----

It works for me but still use at your own risk!

May want to try ZFS instead, I recently found it has case insensitive option.

I just did this with my own script to create the links, including making a symlink from game/lang/en_US to en_us. However, the WeiDU script now does not find it's own internal translations and I keep getting errors like:

ERROR: No translation provided for @24121

Couldn't open the readme: file not found.

Would you like to display the components from [UNDEFINED STRING: @24121]?

It seems like SCS has an internal link from the language "en_US" to its own language "english", and changing to "en_us" breaks that link.

[edit] The solution was to put the stratagems folder under the game folder; the paths to the translation files are semi-hardcoded and ignore the path given on the command line [/edit]

If anyone has beaten this problem I would appreciate some help.

Thanks

[I attach my script to create the lower-case links, its a bit more user-friendly than the one above, but needs to be saved as a script (not a one-liner). It needs to be run in the data, override and scripts folders:]

!/bin/bash

for i in *; do
d=${i%}
dl=${d,,}
[[ $d = $dl ]] && continue
if [[ -e $dl ]]; then
if [[ ! -L $dl ]]; then
echo " ERROR: $dl is not a link"
elif [[ $(readlink -- "$dl") != $d ]]; then
echo " ERROR $dl exists and doesn't point to $d"
fi
else
ln -sv -- "$d" "$dl"
fi
done