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RESOLVED - FG 2020.3.8 in Ubuntu 20 - fgdata missing  

Postby rooman » Sat Jul 17, 2021 8:34 pm

The snap package installer says:
This is a prototype snap of FlightGear. Only the application is built. The FlightGear data files must be downloaded separately and placed in $HOME/snap/flightgear/common/fgdata. In a future release we may automate this. For now, manually:
then,
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mkdir -p $HOME/snap/flightgear/common/

and
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wget -O $HOME/snap/flightgear/common/fgdata.tar.bz2 https://netcologne.dl.sourceforge.net/project/flightgear/release-2020.3.8/FlightGear-2020.3.8-data-rc.txz


but the fgdata file is not found;
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...Connexion à downloads.sourceforge.net (downloads.sourceforge.net)|216.105.38.13|:443… connecté.
requête HTTP transmise, en attente de la réponse… 404 Not Found
2021-07-17 21:30:30 erreur 404 : Not Found.

what to do? is there another server?
Last edited by rooman on Mon Jul 19, 2021 8:15 am, edited 1 time in total.
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Re: FG 2020.3.8 in Ubuntu 20 - fgdata missing

Postby sfr » Sat Jul 17, 2021 9:36 pm

hi rooman,

i've never used the snap package so i'm guessing here.

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 https://netcologne.dl.sourceforge.net/project/flightgear/release-2020.3.8
leads one to

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https://sourceforge.net/projects/flightgear/files/release-2020.3


with the 1.8GB large file

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FlightGear-2020.3.8-data.txz


it's named pretty close to what you're looking for.

hth, sfr
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Re: FG 2020.3.8 in Ubuntu 20 - fgdata missing

Postby rooman » Sun Jul 18, 2021 3:49 pm

thanks for the idea, do you know if the versions must match exactly?
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Re: FG 2020.3.8 in Ubuntu 20 - fgdata missing

Postby Parnikkapore » Mon Jul 19, 2021 1:18 am

Versions do must match exactly - FlightGear will complain if they don't.
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Re: FG 2020.3.8 in Ubuntu 20 - fgdata missing

Postby rooman » Mon Jul 19, 2021 8:15 am

I downloaded a different Flightgear package via the snap package manager, this one is the complete 2020.3.8 and it works fine.

Thanks for your contributions
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