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22 <center><big><big><strong>A simple page for simple help</strong></big></big></center>
25 The main purpose of this webpage is to help people having a fully featured
26 <a href="http://www.flightgear.org" target="_blank">FlightGear</a>
27 installation. It is mainly based on my own experiences I have made with this
28 great piece of software and at home while playing with my Saitek X52 Pro joystick.
32 First of all, you need to <a href="http://www.flightgear.org/Downloads/binary.shtml"
33 target="_blank" title="Binary download">download the latest version</a> of FlightGear
34 from a mirror. At the moment of writing this page it was <strong>2.0</strong> in
35 main program and scenery. Use <a href="http://www.flightgear.org/Downloads/binary.shtml"
36 target="_blank">this link</a> for instance.
40 If you have done so you can only fly a bit around in the area of San
41 Francisco (KSFO plus some more). That is indeed not very much. So you need
42 to get some scenery and more "shared models". Also you will see a
43 lot warning messages or failures. We fix them all step-by-step.
47 So first let us fix the warnings (a bit, not all) and failures while the
48 program is starting up. Most happens because of missing scenery and objects
49 like buildings in the scenery. Download <em>SharedModels.tgz</em> and (if you
50 have a dial-in connection) <em>GlobalObjects.tgz</em> from <a
51 href="http://scenemodels.flightgear.org/" target="_blank">this webpage</a>.
52 You don't need to download every single building! Just grab the big tar balls.
56 On Linux systems you will find tools like <em>tar</em> and <em>gzip</em> for
57 uncompression and extraction of the data_new. But wait! You need to know where you
62 The GlobalObjects.tgz archive contains a lot directories like <strong>eXXXnYYY</strong>
63 plus a lot sub directories with small files in. First change the directory to FG_ROOT
64 (on my Debian system it is <em>/usr/shared/games/FlightGear/</em> and change again
65 into <em>Scenery/Objects/</em>. The final command will looks like this:<br />
67 <pre>cd /usr/share/games/FlightGear/Scenery/Objects/
68 wget http://flightgear.mxchange.org/pub/scenemodels/GlobalObjects.tgz
69 tar xzf GlobalObjects.tgz # (this will take looooong ...)
70 rm -f GlobalObjects.tgz # (to save disk space)</pre><br />
72 You can use the tab key for autocompletition if you prefer not to enter all
73 single characters in the cd command.
76 <p>That part was simple, wasn't it? :)</p>
79 Now we need to get the <em>SharedModels.tgz</em> file but its content
80 should be stored in a different folder. Here are again the needed
81 commands to get it, extract and fix a small bug in it:<br />
84 wget http://flightgear.mxchange.org/pub/scenemodels/SharedModels.tgz
85 tar xzf SharedModels.tgz # (will take again a bit longer)
86 rm -f SharedModels.tgz # (again for saving disk space)</pre>
90 <strong>Alternative download:</strong> (from my server)<br />
91 <strong><big>·</big></strong> <a href="pub/scenemodels/SharedModels.tgz">SharedModels.tgz</a><br />
92 <strong><big>·</big></strong> <a href="pub/scenemodels/GlobalObjects.tgz">GlobalObjects.tgz</a>
96 Well done! You can now still fly around in the basic area of San Fransico
97 Beach but with some more objects and details. :) Enjoy it before we continue
102 If you have a lot (!!!) disk space left you may want to download more scenery
103 (or the whole world?) on your drive. But you can also save it by using an
104 external <a href="rsync.html">rsync server</a> which back online again.
108 If you want to use an external <a href="rsync.html">rsync server</a> (you
109 need TerraSync to do so) please use my launch-helper which available <a
110 href="pub/fgfs-launcher.zip">here</a>. It is written in Bash (Born Again
111 Shell) and starts TerraSync for you to connect to a public <a
112 href="rsync.html">rsync server</a>. It also helps you with playing in
113 multi-player mode and many more!
117 If you want to download all the scenery then find a free weekend and continue below
118 this paragraph. Everyone else is done here or might download <a href="pub/fgfs/Aircraft/"
119 target="_blank">some aircrafts</a> as well.
123 <strong>Hint for mass-downloaders:</strong> You don't need the data from
124 AirportOverlays and RawData if you just want to fly around! You need them if
125 you want to build scenery only. And don't mess around with the <em>Models-Airspace.tar.gz</em>
126 and <em>Scenery-Airspace.tar.gz</em> located <a href="pub/fgfs/Scenery-Airspace/"
127 target="_blank">here</a>. In the <em>Scenery-Airspace.tar.gz</em> you will find a
128 folder called <strong>Objects</strong>. Don't mix that with the one in
129 <strong>Scenery</strong>. If you do so you need to re-install your scenery again.
133 <strong>Continue here with full scenery download:</strong> wget can be a good
134 friend if you know how to use it and if you clean up the download after usage.
135 So this next script is based on it.
139 You can find my download helper <a href="pub/download-helper.zip">here</a>.
140 Here are the needed commands to get full scenery on your drive:<br />
142 <pre>cd /usr/share/games/FlightGear/Scenery/
143 wget http://flightgear.mxchange.org/pub/download-helper.zip
144 unzip download-helper.zip
149 Clean up of downloaded archives is being done by extract.sh. If you like you
150 can remove <em>download-helper.zip</em>, <em>extract.sh</em>, <em>listing</em>
151 and <em>okay</em>. They belong to my script and not to FlightGear.
155 If the download fails just try to restart it with <strong>sh extract.sh</strong>
156 after some minutes. The both servers are very busy these days... :-/
160 <big><strong>Meet you in FGFS. :)</strong></big>
164 PS: My manually mirrored download archive for FlightGear can be found
165 <a href="pub/" target="_blank">here</a>. So take a look around. :)
170 Created: <strong>2008-03-28</strong> |
171 Last update: <strong>2013-02-22</strong> |
172 Author: <a href="mailto:roland_NOSPAM_@_REMOVE_THIS_mxchange_AND_THIS_.org">Roland Häder</a><br />
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