Ok: I am really excited about flight gear. I download the stuff on the site (the dependancies etc) and:
The problems begin. (ominous thunder)
One of the requirements is OpenAL, which has no tar.gz etc, you can only get it through cvs.
I download cvs. Success!
not quite. I can't seem to get it to work, so I try a gui. (more related problems later)
I remember that I am behind a proxy. So I think "i'll try a gui, maybe it has proxy settings."
The guis I can get to install don't have a proxy setting.
Lincvs is a gui, I assume it is similar to wincvs, which was described to have proxy support.
Problem: lincvs 's source is not is tar.gz form, but in tgz form.
after extensive googling, I find that tgz almost equals tar.gz.
However File Roller balks at the tgz, as does tar and gunzip.
(Is the lincvs source bad or is there a problem with tgz?)
anyway, I then try to bypass the proxy with the available technology
(read: a g3 ibook connected direct to network: no proxy)
no specific OSx source on cvs, download the tar.gz (this should work, right? it's a Unix...)
now try to compile: no gcc. download gcc. (after much search and frustration)
To complete: I need the root password. which I don't have. I HATE MACS
Ok: so: the solutions I can think of but am unable to do are:
Someone sends me a tar.gz of OpenAL.
tells me how to get through a proxy with CVS (solve the cvs through proxy problem)
tells me how to unpack the lincvs source.
Longwinded, but true.
All to run Flight gear
thanks,
titanium_geek
