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[SOLVED] How to update Git?

Postby DavidZhu » Sat Oct 02, 2010 11:43 pm

hello

I already have Git setup, and everything works fine... until I tried updating

I'm starting to doubt that I did my update correctly, so would someone please be so kind to check the steps I took?

This is what I did:
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cd /usr/local/src/simgear
git pull
./autogen
./configure
make; make install

cd /usr/local/src/flightgear
git pull
./autogen
./configure
make; make install

cd /usr/local/share/FlightGear
git pull



Did I skip something? It keeps saying random files like Propeller.slow and sound files required for landing cannot be found. It also can't read HUD configuration, so HUD never works.

Then the game crashes.

Did I do it right? What am I missing? Thank you guys

P.S. I am using Ubuntu 10.04

Thanks again
Last edited by DavidZhu on Mon Oct 04, 2010 12:55 am, edited 1 time in total.
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Re: How to update Git?

Postby AndersG » Sun Oct 03, 2010 2:50 pm

DavidZhu wrote:Did I do it right? What am I missing? Thank you guys


That looks ok. That's pretty much what I do too and that works. However, are you sure all of the commands succeed?
In particular, your 'git pull' commands should not report any errors.

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Re: How to update Git?

Postby DavidZhu » Sun Oct 03, 2010 7:04 pm

Thanks for the reply Anders

Nothing seems wrong with my compilation or Git pull, so do you think this has to do with the LD_Library_Path thing?

I'm not too familiar, but I know for sure that FG is having trouble finding required files (HUD, Sounds, Propeller animations, etc)

do you think this has to do with paths? Not sure if you have any ideas...

thanks
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Re: How to update Git?

Postby Hooray » Sun Oct 03, 2010 7:06 pm

You could execute each command using boolean AND ( && ), so that commands are only executed if the previous commands succeeded:

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cd /usr/local/src/simgear && git pull && ./autogen && ./configure && make && make install


You can also display an error message by using an OR ( || ):

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cd /us/loc/sr/simgear || echo "Could not change directory"
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Re: How to update Git?

Postby DavidZhu » Mon Oct 04, 2010 12:55 am

What the heck...!?!? It works!

I was stuck on this problem for like 2 weeks, and I'm pretty sure i did everything right... but guess not?

but I just did a git pull, compiled everything in the syntax that Hooray told me, and now its working... :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

Now I'm just wondering if the problem was the syntax or if the Git version had a problem

But who cares, it works now.

I really appreciate it guys! :P :P
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