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Bombable installation (no data directory)

Postby danilo159 » Sun Sep 20, 2020 12:34 am

I installed Flightgear 2020.1.1 through the Ubuntu Software store. Now I want to install bombable.
But I can't find the directories to install bombable in according to the readme.txt.
I access flighgear directory in .fgfs/ and the readme.txt says to paste all the folders in Flightgear/data.
When i get to .fgfs/ i see
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ai                   Export                navdata_2019_1.cache
Aircraft             fgfs_0.log            navdata_2020_1.cache
aircraft-data        fgfs_lock.pid         PreviewsCache
autosave_2018_1.xml  fgfs.log              Scenery
autosave_2018_3.xml  FlightGear            TerraSync
autosave_2019_1.xml  navdata_2018_1.cache  TextureCache
autosave_2020_1.xml  navdata_2018_3.cache


The only place where I found topics for this problem was this: https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1943589
But he also could not find a solution.
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Re: Bombable installation (no data directory)  

Postby Johan G » Sun Sep 20, 2020 8:17 am

If this FlightGear wiki article is up to date it might be of help: $FG ROOT (permalink)
Low-level flying — It's all fun and games till someone looses an engine. (Paraphrased from a YouTube video)
Improving the Dassault Mirage F1 (Wiki, Forum, GitLab. Work in slow progress)
Some YouTube videos
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Re: Bombable installation (no data directory)

Postby danilo159 » Sun Sep 20, 2020 8:05 pm

Thank you! I was looking at the wrong path
I managed to get to the correct directory using this command in the terminal:
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sudo xdg-open /usr/share/games/flightgear

which opens the file manager with the privileges to paste the files.

For anyone reading this: there is no data directory, just paste the files in
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/usr/share/games/flightgear
and let it merge them all.
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Re: Bombable installation (no data directory)

Postby saiarcot895 » Mon Sep 21, 2020 1:11 am

You should be able to add additional aircraft to a local directory, and then add that directory from the launcher. This is preferred to modifying system directories.

Note that the launcher also has the ability to download aircraft from the official FlightGear hanger.
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Re: Bombable installation (no data directory)

Postby wkitty42 » Mon Sep 21, 2020 9:31 am

the problem with bombable, AFAIR, is that is has not been reworked to live outside of the sim's installation directories... it needs some love so it can live in one's custom craft directory tree...
"You get more air close to the ground," said Angalo. "I read that in a book. You get lots of air low down, and not much when you go up."
"Why not?" said Gurder.
"Dunno. It's frightened of heights, I guess."
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Re: Bombable installation (no data directory)

Postby enrogue » Mon Sep 21, 2020 12:16 pm

The aircraft can live fine outside the fgdata tree, but the other stuff (AI scenarios) and Nasal cannot

It needs converting to an addon - the nasal would load & the bombable menu could itself list & load AI scenarios of it's own
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Re: Bombable installation (no data directory)

Postby wkitty42 » Mon Sep 21, 2020 2:48 pm

exactly what i was trying to say :)
"You get more air close to the ground," said Angalo. "I read that in a book. You get lots of air low down, and not much when you go up."
"Why not?" said Gurder.
"Dunno. It's frightened of heights, I guess."
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Re: Bombable installation (no data directory)

Postby vanosten » Wed Sep 23, 2020 7:49 am

Or you connect to OPRF (see link in my signature) and do military simulation with them (not Bombable). There is also a link to a Discord server on the OPRF home-page.
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Re: Bombable installation (no data directory)

Postby wkitty42 » Wed Sep 23, 2020 2:27 pm

OPRF is the better way to go these days... no muss, no fuss... it just works...
"You get more air close to the ground," said Angalo. "I read that in a book. You get lots of air low down, and not much when you go up."
"Why not?" said Gurder.
"Dunno. It's frightened of heights, I guess."
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