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From: Basil Fowler
To: Hans Krueger
Subject: Re: [SLE] Flightgear
Date: 09 Jun 2003 16:59:21 +0000
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 15:19, Hans Krueger wrote:
that would be great thanks
e-mail me direct if you like
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