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Posting this because it seems that tech support for GOG is asleep or non-existent.

Three frustrating days of re-downloading, and trying it again without answer from tech support led me to finally poking it with a stick enough times to find a work around.

Rename the extension of .sh to .zip, then extract the contents of /data/noarch to a folder called /GOG Games/Fallout 2/
Run start.sh and you are in business
Post edited October 06, 2016 by oldbitcollector
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oldbitcollector: ... extract the contents...
Out of curiosity, which distro are you on? All GOG .sh installers should be extractable, by the way :)
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oldbitcollector: ... extract the contents...
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pablodusk: Out of curiosity, which distro are you on? All GOG .sh installers should be extractable, by the way :)
Linux Mint 17. I had zero problem with the .sh installer from Flatout 1.
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oldbitcollector: Linux Mint 17.
Linux Mint 17 what? How large is the installer? Could be the 32-bit DASH bug depending.