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Re: terrasync not working

Postby curt » Mon Oct 03, 2016 10:18 pm

version 2013.3.1 is working just fine here on Fedora 24. Edit: 2016.3.1 :-)
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Re: terrasync not working

Postby chris_blues » Mon Oct 03, 2016 10:19 pm

Curt, I hope you mean 2016.3.1 ??? :D

Did they ever succeed in changing the download_and_compile script, so it's distro-independent?
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Re: terrasync not working

Postby curt » Mon Oct 03, 2016 10:32 pm

Chris: If you are asking me, I've never tried to run that script. I just update the repositories (git pull and svn update) and then type make.
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Re: terrasync not working

Postby chris_blues » Mon Oct 03, 2016 10:33 pm

I have no experience with Fedora. Could you describe, how you get to 2016.3.1?

On Debian, I simply run this script: http://wiki.flightgear.org/Scripted_Com ... ian/Ubuntu
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Re: terrasync not working

Postby curt » Mon Oct 03, 2016 10:36 pm

Chris, I build it the same way I always do, fetch/update the repository (or download a source tarball), configure, and make. The process is pretty much the same as for any other open-source project in the last 30 years.
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Re: terrasync not working

Postby chris_blues » Mon Oct 03, 2016 10:38 pm

How did you satisfy the build-dependencies?

This is mostly, what the script is for. On apt systems you can also do an
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apt-get build-dep flightgear
(or very similar - haven't done that in a while)



Edit:
To compile from source essentially means, you have to get the source files, and then build them to a binary program. The sources for FlightGear can be found here: https://sourceforge.net/projects/flightgear/

You definitely need:
  • SimGear
  • FlightGear
  • FGData

You'll also need the -dev packages for:
  • OpenSceneGraph (at least version 3.2)
  • plib
Those you can get from your distro (Is it yum on Fedora?)

Then there are still some more dependencies, I hope to find out from Curt. (see post below)

After you have everything in place, you can open a terminal, enter SimGear source-directory and type
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cd /path/to/source-code
./configure
make
sudo make install


After you have gone through that with SimGear and FlightGear, you should have installed latest FG on your system.
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Re: terrasync not working

Postby curt » Mon Oct 03, 2016 10:47 pm

There aren't too many build dependencies. Usually I run the compile until something breaks and then I install the missing package using "dnf" which is fedora's package manager. Once you've gone through the process once on your system then all those dependencies are there for future versions. There's really no magic to doing this ... it's very similar to the process of compiling many other open-source packages.
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Re: terrasync not working

Postby chris_blues » Mon Oct 03, 2016 10:52 pm

Near miss! :) see my last post's edit.
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Re: terrasync not working

Postby megaloman » Mon Oct 03, 2016 11:04 pm

curt wrote in Mon Oct 03, 2016 10:18 pm:version 2013.3.1 is working just fine here on Fedora 24. Edit: 2016.3.1 :-)


I'll try to to build it myself - upgrading to Fedora 24 as we speak (it's downloading 4.7GB of packages) ;)

I've never thought of building from source - I would expect too many dependencies - I may give it a go! Thanks for a tip and replies :)
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Re: terrasync not working

Postby chris_blues » Mon Oct 03, 2016 11:08 pm

Building from source usually isn't that hard. You just have to remember some key procedures, like mentioned above. Sometimes it's kinda tedious to fulfill all dependencies, if you don't know exactly what you need. Then you'll have to build until it stops, complaining about some missing dependency, install it and then retry and so on - until it builds through.
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Re: terrasync not working

Postby curt » Mon Oct 03, 2016 11:08 pm

It might be easier to just proceed down that path and ask questions if something breaks that you can't figure out?

The one big difference is I do out of source builds (so the .o's don't intermingle with the source files). So once the code is untarred (or git clone/pull) then I do something like the following:


mkdir build-release # as a sibling to the flightgear source tree which is called "flightgear"
cd build-release
rm CMakeCache.txt
cmake ../flightgear -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$PREFIX -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release
make

I also do this for SimGear. I install OSG from fedora packages. I probably build/install plib from source because that's what I've always done.
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Re: terrasync not working

Postby wkitty42 » Tue Oct 04, 2016 12:14 am

@megaloman: the main thing is that your internet connection needs to be fast... i have a measly 3mb down connection and can easily out fly the scenery in the faster craft... pause the sim and wait for the scenery to finish... it should be ok the next time you fly there...
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Re: terrasync not working

Postby chris_blues » Tue Oct 04, 2016 12:17 am

Good point! It's also quite possible your internet connection isn't fast enough.
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Re: terrasync not working

Postby wkitty42 » Tue Oct 04, 2016 2:04 am

wow... i missed the whole second page of this topic when i wrote my post about bandwidth...

FWIW: the speed of the connection is one thing... how much traffic is being stuffed into that pipe is also a factor as is the busy factor of every router between the sim and the server...
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Re: terrasync not working

Postby shahaan gujral » Sun Jan 29, 2017 5:20 pm

Hello everybody,
i run mac osx 10.11.6 and just downloaded the new version 2016.4.4 however when i selected an aircraft and everything and eneterd EBBR or brussels and started the flight everything about the loading was correct but FG did not download my scenery and jumped to loading and when it starts FG puts my aircraft in the water somewhere and i cant see any land (this happened with terrasync enabled) so i thaught to reinstall another version so i installed the 3.2 version
but i see that EBBR was already entered and when i started the flight again the same thing happened i tried it with every airport ,every aircraft but still the same problem and then in flie>scenery download>log it shows cannot download scenery terrasync does not exist correct directory

PLZ HELP SOME BODY
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