Hullo Hans All these packages were on my SuSE 8.0 professional, and all were needed. There was an error in my post; the current version is 0.9.2, not 0.9.6 mesaglut-devel-4.0.1-74 mesa-4.0.1-74 mesaglu-4.0.1-74 mesaglut-4.0.1-74 mesasoft-4.0.1-74 mesa-devel-4.0.1-74 mesaglu-devel-4.0.1-74 The instruction book also mentions: xf86glu xf86glu-devel xf86_glx which are part of xf86-4.2.0-devel. FlightGear-0.9.2 requires plib > 1.6. SuSE 8.0 only provides plib 1.4, so I had to download and compile plib-1.6. Simgear 0.3.3 is also a prerequisite. Both the above packages can be downloaded from www.flightgear.org. If plip has to be compiled, it will not do so unless all the header files from mesa*-devel are present. SimGear will not compile without plip. The compilation of FlightGear is straightforward. There is a comparatively short binary and a massive data library. Normally the binary goes into /usr/local/bin. The data file fgfs-base-0.9.2 has to be unzipped into /usr/local/lib. A directory /usr/local/lib/FlightGear-0.9.2 will be created. Here is the real gotcha: when starting Flightgear, the command line has to be fgfs --fg-root=/usr/local/lib/FlightGear-0.9.2 otherwise it will not start. However if the parameter is placed in the file $HOME/.fgfsrc then fgfs will start the program. Happy flying! Basil Fowler Are you aware that it has been adapted for flying over Mars? On Monday 09 Jun 2003 16:35, Peter B Van Campen wrote:

But Please share with the list also!

PeterB