How to install Flightgear on LMDE

[filozofio]

I am using package LMDE package 8 and the installation refers to Flightgear version 3.0

Flightgear is not complete in the repositories. Therefore, I recommend to build it. The information was taken from this website: http://wiki.flightgear.org/Building_FlightGear_-_Debian, but I had to do some adaptations.

1. Presupositions

Make sure you have this packages in your system (some of them are in LMDE by default):

automake cmake g++ gcc git make sed subversion freeglut3-dev libboost-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev libdbus-1-dev libfltk1.3-dev libgtkglext1-dev libjpeg8-dev libopenal-dev librsvg2-dev libxml2-dev libasound2-dev

Your can do it with the synaptic program or just doing in a terminal:

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sudo apte-get install automake cmake g++ gcc git make sed subversion freeglut3-dev libboost-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev  libdbus-1-dev libfltk1.3-dev  libgtkglext1-dev  libjpeg8-dev libopenal-dev librsvg2-dev  libxml2-dev libasound2-dev 

And the missing packages will be installed.

2. Assign directories

In a terminal, do:

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export FG_INSTALL_DIR=$HOME/FG30 && mkdir $FG_INSTALL_DIR

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export FG_SRC_DIR=$HOME/FG30/src && mkdir $FG_SRC_DIR

Instead of /FG30 and FG30/src you can write other directories of your likeness.

Don't leave the terminal.

3. Building

In the terminal, give these orders, to build plib:

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cd $FG_SRC_DIR

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svn co https://svn.code.sf.net/p/plib/code/trunk plib.svn

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cd plib.svn

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sed s/PLIB_TINY_VERSION\ \ 5/PLIB_TINY_VERSION\ \ 6/ -i src/util/ul.h

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./autogen.sh

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./configure --prefix=$FG_INSTALL_DIR

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make -j2 install

In the terminal, give these orders, to build OpenSceneGraph (beware that after the cmke order, you will be asked to introduce the code in the following line):

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cd $FG_SRC_DIR

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svn co http://svn.openscenegraph.org/osg/OpenSceneGraph/tags/OpenSceneGraph-3.2.0

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mkdir build-osg; cd build-osg

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cmake -D CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE="Release" -D LIB_POSTFIX="" \
      -D CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX:PATH="$FG_INSTALL_DIR" $FG_SRC_DIR/OpenSceneGraph-3.2.0

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make -j2 install

In the terminal, give these orders to build simgear:

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cd $FG_SRC_DIR

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git clone git://mapserver.flightgear.org/simgear simgear.git

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cd simgear.git

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git checkout -b 3.0 origin/release/3.0.0

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mkdir $FG_SRC_DIR/build-sg; cd $FG_SRC_DIR/build-sg

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cmake -D CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX:PATH="$FG_INSTALL_DIR" $FG_SRC_DIR/simgear.git

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make -j2 install

In the terminal, give these orders to build Flightgear 3.0:

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cd $FG_SRC_DIR

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git clone git://mapserver.flightgear.org/flightgear flightgear.git

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cd flightgear.git

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git checkout -b 3.0 origin/release/3.0.0

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mkdir $FG_SRC_DIR/build-fg; cd $FG_SRC_DIR/build-fg

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cmake -D CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX:PATH="$FG_INSTALL_DIR" $FG_SRC_DIR/flightgear.git

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make -j2 install

4. Downloading the data

The instructions at the Flightgear wiki page about downloading the data file did not work properly. Therefore, I went to this page:

http://www.flightgear.wo0t.de/Shared/

and manually downloaded the FlightGear-data-3.0.0.tar.bz file into my /FG30 directory.

Afterwords, I just extracted the file inside the /FG30 directory, and they build a new directory, called /FG30/fgdata

There is a little bug there. I had to go to the file called version, inside the /FG30/fgdata directory, and write 3.0.1 instead of 3.0.0. The reason is that the fg program, after copiled, asked for that version, although it was not already published when i did this.

5. Testing

To test the installation, you can do in the terminal:

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export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$FG_INSTALL_DIR/lib/:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH

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$FG_INSTALL_DIR/bin/fgfs --fg-root=$FG_INSTALL_DIR/fgdata

6. Permanent script

You can do a permanent script to run the program. With gedit I created a file name fg_start with this contents:

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#!/bin/sh
cd $(dirname $0)
cd /home/username/FG30/bin
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/home/username/FG30/lib:
./fgfs --fg-root=/home/username/FG30/fgdata/ $@

Just remember to write your user name instead of "username", and use the right directories.

Afterwards, save the file, and in the file navigator (nemo), you can right click it, go to properties and then to permissions, to make it executable.

Then you only have to run it to start flightgear. Usually you will have to go to go to a terminal, and then:

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cd /FG30

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./fg_start

The graphic program fgo is in the LMDE repositories, and you can use it to start Flightgear. Remember to use the new file fg_start as the executable in fgo.

7. Uninstall

At the beginning you simply created a /FG30 directory in your home directory. Uninstall is simply: just delete the directory you created.

Flightgear creates a .fgfs directory in your home directory. To see it in nemo, just click Ctrl-h. In new versions of Flightgear, this directory grows a lot, because it keeps the downloaded scenarios. For uninstall flightgear, you should delete this directory too.

[Monsta]

The usual flaw of 99% of "make install" howtos: no uninstall instructions and no mentioning of the fact that your package manager knows nothing about things installed via "make install".

[filozofio]

To uninstall, simply delate the folder created in your home directory. That is all.
Thank you for your kindness.