Hi! I'm absolutely new to this mailingist, but I thought, I should share my experience with installation of FlightGear 1.9.1 on openSUSE 11.1.
There are some problems involved in it, so here is what I've done: - http://www.flightgear.org/ -> Developers -> Source code -> "Download the latest source code release" -> "Download the latest base package release (234Mb)." -> Download SimGear - it was not available on the SimGear sites, so you have to look for it with your favorite search engine. - All the other packages can be installed with zypper or similar, if you include the packman repository to your installation repositories - Missing packages (on my rather freshly installed system) can be installed with: zypper install plib openal openal-soft-devel freeglut freeglut-devel \ OpenSceneGraph gcc43 gcc boost-devel gcc-c++ freealut \ freealut-devel plib-devel libOpenSceneGraph-devel automake \ libOpenThreads-devel - ./configure in FlightGear-1.9.1 will complain about a missing boost library of a correct version. The problem is the directory /usr/include/boost, which should have some version info in it. You can resolv the problem by creating a link, which has the version info in it: ln -s /usr/include/boost /usr/include/boost-1_36 - So now it complained about missing SimGear installation here, so switch to the SimGear installation, and run it with: ./configure && make && make install - Then go back to FlightGear and proceed with: ./configure &&make && make install One additional note: There are some problems with the configure scripts. They don't check everything they would have to check, so you might run into some obscure errors or error messages, if you don't have everything installed. On FlightGear, I ran across a problem with gcc-c++ not being installed resulting in an error message, that the correct boost version is not available. On SimGear, I ran into some problems with libOpenSceneGraph-devel not being installed. plib-devel and other *-devel packages also created problems, so be sure to have at least the above list of packages installed. Finally, when now starting fgfs, the error message: Base package check failed ... Found version [none] at: /usr/local/share/FlightGear seems to indicate an incomplete installation, where FlightGear- data-1.9.0.tar.bz2 is missing (I hope). The download of this package will take some more hours here, so I cannot test it now. Good luck ;) Thomas Mack ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Flightgear-users mailing list Flightgear-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-users
