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Hi
I downloaded Flightgear for linux and it installed ok ( i think?) and then vanished!
I cant find it on any menu or in the file system?
I tried "Whereis flightgear" in the terminal and the reply was
flightgear:
which didnt help me much!!
can anyone advise please?
Update:
I did a "Locate" and found all the doc files - still couldnt see the program file but as i'm new to linux i still havnt got the hang of the not having an EXE file extension!
found out that by just typing FGFS in terminal the program runs.
I'm trying not to moan LOL BUT the people who wrote this must have devoted huge amounts of time to this program. would it have been that hard to add this to a menu plus links to the help files?
or is this harder with linux cos of all the different distro's?
Is it just that certain distros automatically update the menu after an install and include the new program? Or is this a configuration you can set in any distro. I know Xandros updates the menu. I find this helpful.
if all you wanna do is creating an enty in some menu and you know the program starts by typing FGFS, then you can just type that in the 'execute' line. You don't need to specify the exact path, if it's in you PATH variable. If you still want to find it, just for the sake of it, then type 'echo $PATH' and look in the directories it outputs (for example with 'find /some/directory -name FGFS')
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