Hi Erik,

Thanks for your reply

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Hi,
I have a problem to run fgfs from an user account; I am using a fedora core 3 system.
I installed FlightGear 0.9.8 in /usr/local/FlightGear-0.9.8 and the base package is located in /usr/local/FlightGear-0.9.8/share/FlightGear
When I tested FlightGear from the root account, everything went well.



I run FlightGear as a user all the time, so there shouldn't be a problem.


Well, I did in the past without problem; that why I am a little bit surprised, not to be able anymore;



If I run fgfs as a user without options, it run ok as well; but if I try to give options, like using another aircraft, I get the following answer:
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ /usr/local/FlightGear-0.9.8/bin/fgfs &
[1] 6138
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$


Base package check failed ... Found version [none] at: /usr/local/FlightGear-0.9.8/share/FlightGear # Tells FlightGear where to look for its root data files
Please upgrade to version: 0.9.8



You have to set the FG_ROOT environment variable (or specify --fg-root in the ~/.fgfsrc file) to point to the "data" directory of FlightGear. In your case I expect it to be one of the following:



/usr/local/FlightGear-0.9.8/data
/usr/local/FlightGear-0.9.8/share/FlightGear/data


Ok; this is something that isn't clear for me; what is exactly the data directory ?
In my install, I have most of the files and directories (airport, aircraft, etc) in


/usr/local/FlightGear-0.9.8/share/FlightGear

so I thought it is the fg-root; in fact, in this directory, there is also that version file that contains the version number of flightgear, and I thought it was this file the program complained not to find; it must be something else, since the file is there anyway;
on the other hand, there is also a data directory, that contains very few files; but if I set fg-root to


/usr/local/FlightGear-0.9.8/share/FlightGear/data

I get exactly the same result :-(
So, for the moment, I am still stuck!

Patrick.


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