I installed /flightgear-0.9.2-2mdk.i586.rpm. I first had to figure out where to get the libmk4.so.0 package and install it. After FG was installed I couldn't find out how to start it. I then read that I must first download and install the 'base' package. I can not find the base package except for one meant for Debian. I have Mandrake 9.1. Where can I find 'base'?
What other problems will I run into for sure? Am I heading in the right direction so far or am I way off base (no pun intended)? Any advice or thougyts are welcome. Thanks...

...did you try going to the konsole (sorry, im kde biased ) and running 'flightgear' (without the quotes)?

Yes. I also learned that a probable command is ./runfgfs. No go!!Hmmmmmmmmmm!!!

i think mandrake would come with all the packages you need. try searching for them with mandrake's rpm gui.

fgfs is the command to setup the config file for flightgear (and you should use this)

if you don't want to use the the setup prog, run fgrun

to setup in fgfs, the exectuable is in /usr/local/bin (or /usr/bin) and the libraries are somewhere in /lib (you should be able to find them easily enough)

you will know when everything is correct when the program begins to automatically load airports

I ran the config command 'fgfs'. I got a permissions error. I found the supposed fix for the error but it means editing my graphics driver file. To complex for now. So forget the config for now.

Next I typed 'fgrun'. I got 'command not found'.

usr/local/bin and usr/local/lib are EMPTY.

You sound very confident and sure of yourself so I'm hopeing you can help. I have been offered so much help and all of it is wrong...I'm wondering if I installed wrong or if somethings wrong with the file I downloaded.

It IS definately installed.

okay, i was just looking through the file list and structure of the flightgear mandrake package, and wow, it is quite different than slackware's package, so what i stated before probably will not work

it seems that there will be nothing installed to the "bin" directories in mandrake; everything is in /usr/share/games (most of the important stuff anyway)

you stated that fgfs gives u a permissions error: can you post the message here?
for now, try doing chmod 777 /usr/games/fgfs (while root), then exit from root and run fgfs

now, a file not seen in slackware that i see listed in mandrake's files is fgjs; try running this file in a terminal

oh, and this probably won't be of big help, but the latest rpm for mandrake's flightgear is 0.9.3-1; you may want to try that package, but even with the one you have the above stated should give some result


*edit: more information-

you may also want to run the files directly; the executables are aparently located in /usr/games, so cd into that directory and run them from here (ie, cd /usr/games, then ./fgfs, etc)

also, the data and library files seem to be located in /usr/share/games/FlightGear/data, so if you get fgfs running, set the executable directory to /usr/games and the library directory to /usr/share/games/FlightGear/data


*edit 2: still trying to remember how fgfs is setup, i might end up reinstalling it to see

anyway, the scenery directory is /usr/share/games/FlightGear/data/Scenery

post back here and tell me what fgfs requires to know

also, fgrun doesn't seem to be packaged into the mandrake rpm; fgrun was just recently put into slackware's package.

in console go to /usr/games/ and type ./fgfs and the flight begins....