yeah, i don't know... the problem, in my case, is that FGData is in directory "fgdata" not directory "data"... my FG is built with the dnc script... my quick solution was to create a link from "data" to "fgdata"... perhaps the settings screen where you define these directories can render the path in red if the directory is not right and in green or black when it is good? perhaps green or black up to the point of failure and the rest being red?
eg: pointing to my ~/flightgear-dev/release/install/flightgear directory
without the "data" link as shown below...
~/flightgear-dev/release/install/flightgear
/data/Airports~/flightgear-dev/release/install/flightgear
/data/AI/Trafficthat tells me immediately where the path is failing... then, after adding the "data" link and restarting the appimage...
~/flightgear-dev/release/install/flightgear/data/Airports
~/flightgear-dev/release/install/flightgear/data/AI/Traffic
FWIW: this is my directory structure from my "stable" build (2020.2 IIRC)...
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~/flightgear-dev/release/install/flightgear$ ls -la
total 20
drwxrwxr-x 5 myuser mygroup 4096 Jul 2 10:08 .
drwxrwxr-x 4 myuser mygroup 4096 Jun 19 11:57 ..
drwxrwxr-x 2 myuser mygroup 4096 Jun 19 13:09 bin
lrwxrwxrwx 1 myuser mygroup 6 Jul 1 19:15 data -> fgdata
drwxrwxr-x 33 myuser mygroup 4096 Jun 19 12:48 fgdata
drwxrwxr-x 7 myuser mygroup 4096 Jun 19 12:03 share
this is my directory structure from my "next" build... it does not have a link from "data" to "fgdata" and it is using my ""main"" fgdata...
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~/flightgear-dev/next/install/flightgear$ ls -la
total 16
drwxrwxr-x 4 myuser mygroup 4096 Feb 11 2018 .
drwxrwxr-x 14 myuser mygroup 4096 Jun 28 2018 ..
drwxrwxr-x 2 myuser mygroup 4096 Jun 18 18:51 bin
lrwxrwxrwx 1 myuser mygroup 39 Feb 11 2018 fgdata -> /home/myuser/flightgear-dev/fgdata-ng
drwxrwxr-x 7 myuser mygroup 4096 Jun 18 18:51 share
i have to have two different FGDatas... one for next and one for the stable build... i tried to link both to my main one (fgdata-ng) but the stable build complains and refuses to use it so... i was really hoping to be able ot have only one fgdata and all my FGs would use it but alas that's not to be...
for now, i guess i'll be using my stable build for my development stuff... i do still have more questions, though... i'll post them in another topic, though...
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