Ron Jensen wrote: > On Thu, 2008-01-03 at 10:42 -0500, scott wrote: > >> I am a new user of FlightGear and am installing it on SuSE Linux. All >> parts of FlightGear were downloaded and installed on SuSE Linux 10.3 >> from http://software.opensuse.org/search. Now when I try and run FG >> via the command "CheckHardware --sound --3D fgfs", I receive: >> Base package check failed ... Found version [none] at: >> /usr/local/share/FlightGear >> Please upgrade to version: 0.9.8 >> >> Can someone tell me where I went wrong? >> >> > > That error means flightgear can't find its data. > > Did you install the flightgear-data package? I'm not sure what the > difference is in these two: > http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/games:/action/openSUSE_10.3/noarch/FlightGear-data-1.0.0-4.1.noarch.rpm > http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/games:/action/openSUSE_10.3/nosrc/FlightGear-data-1.0.0-4.1.nosrc.rpm > > Also, from the version number (0.9.8) you may have got a really old > flightgear... It looks like version 1.0.0 is available: > http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/lmich/openSUSE_10.3/i586/FlightGear-1.0.0-5.1.i586.rpm > http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/lmich/openSUSE_10.3/src/FlightGear-1.0.0-5.1.src.rpm > http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/lmich/openSUSE_10.3/x86_64/FlightGear-1.0.0-5.1.x86_64.rpm > > Ron Thanks Ron:
I am not sure either but I have been downloading and installing the noarch versions. Thought I did download and install the data portion but am doing so now. Will see what happens. Been meaning to get FG running and give it a go. Very interested in having a flight simulator on Linux. Scott ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Flightgear-users mailing list Flightgear-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-users
