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%% getstart.tex -- Flight Gear documentation: Installation and Getting Started
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%% Chapter file
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%% Written by Michael Basler, started September 1998.
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%%
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%% Copyright (C) 1999 Michael Basler (pmb@knUUt.de)
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%%
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%%
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%% This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
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%% modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
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%% published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the
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%% License, or (at your option) any later version.
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%%
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%% This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
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%% WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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%% MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
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%% General Public License for more details.
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%%
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%% You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
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%% along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
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%% Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
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%%
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%% $Id: getstart.tex,v 0.12 1999/03/07 michael
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%% (Log is kept at end of this file)
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\chapter{Preflight: Installing \FlightGear \label{prefligh}}
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\markboth{\thechapter.\hspace*{1mm}
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PREFLIGHT}{\thesection\hspace*{1mm} INSTALLING THE BINARIES}
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\section{Installing the Binaries}\index{binaries!installation}
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You can skip this section and go to the installation of scenery in
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case you built \FlightGear along the lines describes during the
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previous chapter. If you did not and you're jumping in here your
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first step consists in installing the binaries. At present, there
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are only pre-compiled \Index{binaries} available for
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\Index{Windows 98/NT} while in principle it might be possible to
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create (statically linked) binaries for \Index{Linux} as well.
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The following supposes you are on a Windows 98 or Windows
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NT\index{Windows 98/NT} system. Installing the binaries is quite
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simple. Go to the \FlightGear downloads page
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\web{http://www.flightgear.org/Downloads/}
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\noindent
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and get the latest binaries from the binaries subdirectory named
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\texttt{fg-win32-bin-X.XX.exe}
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\noindent
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and unpack them via double clicking. This will create a directory \texttt{FlightGear}
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with several subdirectories. You are done.
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\section{Installing \Index{Support files}}
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Independent on your operating system and independent on if you
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built the binaries yourself or installed the precompiled ones as
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described above you will need \Index{scenery}, \Index{texture},
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and \Index{sound} files. A basic package of all these is contained
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in the binaries directory mentioned above as
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\texttt{fgfs-base-X.XX}.
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\noindent
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Preferably, you may want to download the \texttt{.tar.gz} version
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if you are working under \Index{Linux}/\Index{UNIX} and the \texttt{.exe} version if you
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are under \Index{Windows 98/NT}. Make sure you get the \textbf{most recent} version.
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If you're working under \Index{Linux} or \Index{UNIX}, unpack the
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previously downloaded file with
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\texttt{tar xvfz fgfs-base-X.XX.tar.gz},
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\noindent
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while under \Index{Windows 98/NT} just double click on the file (being situated in the
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root of your \FlightGear drive.).
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This already completes installing \FlightGear and should enable
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you to invoke the program.
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Some more scenery which, however, is not a substitute for the
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package mentioned above but rather is based on it can be found in
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the scenery subdirectory under
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\web{http://www.flightgear.org/Downloads/}
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\noindent
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These may be older versions which may or may not work with the
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most recent binaries.
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In addition, there is a complete set of \Index{USA Scenery files}
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available created by Curt Olson\index{Olson, Curt} which can be
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downloaded from
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\web{ftp://ftp.kingmont.com/pub/kingmont/index.html}.
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\noindent
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The complete set covers several 100's of MBytes. Thus, Curt
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provides the complete set on CD-ROM for those who really would
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like to fly over all of the USA. For more detail, check the
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remarks in the downloads page above.
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Finally, the binaries directory mentioned contain the complete
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\FlightGear documentation including a .pdf version of this
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\textit{Installation and Getting Started} guide intended for
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pretty printing using Adobe's Acrobat reader being available from
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\web{http://www.adobe.com/acrobat}.
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\noindent
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on any printer.
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%% Revision 0.00 1998/09/08 michael
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%% Initial revision for version 0.53.
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%% Revision 0.01 1998/09/20 michael
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%% several extensions and corrections
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%% revision 0.10 1998/10/01 michael
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%% final proofreading for release
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%% revision 0.11 1998/11/01 michael
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%% support files section completely re-written
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