craig wrote:
> Does anyone have a package assembled for SUSE 10.1? I'm just starting
> with SUSE and while I'd love to do a compile for fun I don't have the
> skills to do that yet. I'm looking forward to a better expereince with
> FG on SUSE than Wins#$%!
> TIA
> Craig
Very Good News! - Glad to hear that you are converting to the best gift
from Linus and not getting Bill headaches and viruses.
To compile and get FG running under SuSE 10.1 was a bit of a challenge
due to plib needing a change. However, FlightGear was not the cause of
the headache. As a rule most software for Linux you download the source
and there are a couple (a bunch may be better) of things to do.
However, when you finish you will have every dependence your software
needs and not something some else decided you need.
1. Unzip using gzip (file.gz) or bzip2 (file.bz2) which will give you a
file.tar (tape archive). Or you can use tar directly -
"tar -xzvf file.tar.gz" or "tar -xjvf file.tar.bz2". Normally you will
end up with a sub-directory from file.tar equal to /file. You then cd
(change directory) to /file. In it there will be several source code
and build files. They will normally be autogen.sh, configure.in, maybe
configure and Makefile.an and/or Makefile.in. NOTE these files are not
executable except ./configure. The "./" portion tells the system that
it is in the current directory which is not in your normal $PATH (try
"echo $PATH"). To simplify this just type "./autogen.sh" if it is there
or "./configure --help". Note the available option the your source
needs to know about I normally make scripts (sort of a batch file) to
tell the system where I want to put the software and where to find
things it needs. For trial try after running "./autogen" - "make
distclean" then ./configure (remember this will like not put the
software where you want it - usually in /usr/local" next try
"./configure". It will take a while to complete. When it finishes (if
it does not complain and quit) type > "make" (no ./ because "make" is in
your $PATH") which will run and be looking for a "Makefile" or
"makefile" (SuSE 10.1 - "/usr/bin/make -f Makefile")
(try "which make". If that "make" process finishes try
"make -n install" which will not install the files but let you look at
where it is going to install the files. If you are happy "make install"
Then you might run "ldconfig ; updatedb" <- both take time
If you need I can forward you my custom scripts. They are rather small
and attempt to over write old software with my newly compiled versions.
NOTE: SuSE and Red Hat do not use the same directory placement for file
SuSE also stick the "docs" under /usr/share/doc/packages.
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