[REPLACED BY https://github.com/Megaf/FlightGearBuilder-NG ]

FlightGearBuilder

About

FlightGearBuilder is an elegant and simple script that will:

• On Debian based distros, it will download and install all depedencies required to build FlightGear and its components from the source.
• Download the source code of PLIB, OpenSceneGraph, SimgGear and, FlightGear.
• Compile each of the components after its source is downloaded.

What Does It Do?

• FlightGearBuilder is a shell script that will download the source code for OSG, PLIB, SimGear and FlightGear.
• Then it will compile a nice and stable version of them. Or unstable, if so you chose.

How do I run it? How to use it?

Installing FlightGear

1. Download the script run it with ./FlightGearBuilder.sh. You may or may not need to mark it as executable first with chmod +x FlightGearBuilder.sh

• Add --next flag to each script if you want to download the very latest testing version of FlightGear.

FGDataDownloader.sh

About FGDataDownloader.sh

• GDataDownloader is a tiny script that will download the "Data" required to run FlightGear.
• The Data will be downloaded to the FGB folder, tipically located in your home folder.

Running FGDataDownloader.sh

1. Download the script run it with ./FGDataDownloader.sh. You may or may not need to mark it as executable first with chmod +x FGDataDownloader.sh

• Add --next flag to each script if you want to download the very latest testing version of FlightGear.

FlightGear Data

• FlightGear Data are required files to run FlightGear.
• https://download.flightgear.org/builds/
• https://gitlab.com/flightgear/fgdata

Uninstalling FlightGear

1. Simply remove the FGB directory from your $HOME folder.
2. There will be a launcher at $HOME/.local/share/applications/, remove it to remove FlightGear from the applications menu.

Where is FlightGear Installed to?

• By default the script will install to ~/FGB.

How to I run FlightGear?

• If everything wel well, you can run ./flightgear --launcher from the folder ~/FGB/FlightGear-Stable/Next.
• Or, by simply searching for and clicking in FlightGear in your DEs applications menu/dashboard.