I am new to Linux and find no tutorials for installing software or games. I checked out some you tube examples that are to small to read and cannot understand what they are saying. Are there any text tutorials available?

The first thing we need to know: which distro are you using?

The link below should have all the info you need including which dependencies are needed, hardware compatibility, an FAQ and a link to their forums. You may be able to download from your Linux system's repository but check the page below first. I'd read through the main page so you have some understanding of what needs to be done and which other software it depends on. It comes as a tar.gz compressed file so you need to extract that and then look through the files, it should have at least a README file and/or other files with instructions.

http://askmisterwizard.com/FlightSim...roFullPage.htm

Thanks for asking about Linux Air Combat ("LAC"). I am the primary author of LAC and I want to work with you to ensure your success. We really want you in our emerging LAC community, and we hope that you will soon be able to join us online in one of our World War II warbirds! (LAC's "learning curve" is steep, but if you've been flying other online, multiplayer flight sims like the many that have been available for Microsoft "Windows" for the past 18 years or so, you will find that it is similar.)

First, I'm pleased to report that everything yancek said is correct. The web page to which he refers is indeed the primary web page for LAC. Although it is a large, detailed page, if you read through it you ought to find all of your questions answered. It includes a large set of YouTube videos illustrating exactly how other people, new to Linux, have succeeded in the very processes you asked about. Yancek speculated that LAC may already be available the "easy" way, through your LINUX distribution's repositories. That is unlikely. Although I've had several queries about putting LAC into official repositories, I've urged patience and caution. LAC is still undergoing periodic changes and updates, so it isn't ready to go into official repositories yet. Nevertheless, it is stable enough for the LAC community to enjoy enthusiastically.

You wrote "I checked out some you tube examples that are to small to read". Since my primary LAC support page (referenced above) is loaded with high-resolution YouTube video clips, I am going to assume you are referring to one or more of those. Because those video clips are recorded in very high definition, the text illustrated in them is small, and it's natural that you will have trouble reading it unless you have a high-definition display (at least 720p) and are viewing it in full-screen mode. Also, YouTube will degrade your video resolution if they suspect that your Internet connection isn't fast enough for them to deliver a reasonable video frame rate without a lot of buffering and pausing.

If your method of viewing YouTube videos is indeed limited by one or more of those factors, may I suggest that you try to watch those video clips through some other computer? Perhaps you could ask a friend to let you use their computer and Internet connection to watch them? Or maybe you could go to a public Internet cafe to watch or download them?

I hope you will soon be able to benefit from those training-oriented YouTube clips, but even if you cannot get them working adequately, you should still be able to get Linux Air Combat working. Many, many other beginners have had success with it. As described on the web page referenced above, the process will include these main steps:

1- Install all of the "Prerequisite" libraries. LAC uses only well-known, universally supported, free libraries that are available free of charge on virtually every modern desktop version of LINUX. There are two sets of these libraries as described in the "Prerequisites" section of the referenced web page: You will definitely need at least the first set, which are required before the executable LAC program will run. You might also need the second set of these libraries, if it's necessary for you to compile LAC from the free source code.

2- Download and decompress the tar.gz installation file.

3- Run the "install.sh" installation script, which will also prompt you with the command line needed to test the result.

4- Test the result as described in the prompts.

5- If it works, enjoy the results, consulting the "FAQ" and "HowTo" resources from our web page. or...

6- If step 4 fails to run, then download the second set of libraries, and compile the source code as described in the "Compiling from Source Code" section of our web page. You may find this intimidating at first, but if you refer to the video clips showing exactly how others have done this, you are very likely to have success within half an hour or so. (You should not need to change any of the source code at all.) At that point, return to step "3-" above to run the "install.sh" script again. I bet you will find everything works at that point.

If you have specific questions, I will monitor this thread and I will be happy to help you get answers.

you can get a new PC for $275 or used one for less, run win10, and play xbox games with ease

why make life difficult?

use linux for what it's good for, not for what it isn't good at

if your left with hours of work to get one game to work: run away in the other direction, your getting stiffed

Linux has enough games to keep 'me' happy!

i had to uninstall many games on opensuse , i was not getting work done

there are too many good games

I agree that Linux has enough great games to satisfy me. If you prefer XBox or Playstation style games, that's fine too.

I should warn readers, however, that "Linux Air Combat" is harder to learn than your typical game console game... It's fairly easy to get it running well on most Linux desktop distros, but if you are just wanting to jump into a simple-minded little video game, you are going to be frustrated. New players that stay with LAC for more than a day or so end up spending several weeks learning to master it well enough to be competitive online. It simulates 54 different WW2 aircraft, with fairly credible attention to their individual flight characteristics. I'm NOT saying that it is fanatically accurate down to the last detail, but all of the flight characteristics are "in the right ballpark". Real combat pilots spend years of hard practice learning combat flight tactics well enough to survive against their competitors. LAC will demand that you spend at least a couple of weeks to survive online combat enough to start thinking of yourself as a truly competitive player.

Those looking for a quick thrill without some study will be happier elsewhere.

It's been a long time since this thread saw an update, and Linux Air Combat (or "lac") has been steadily developed and improved in the interim. At the time of this writing in June of 2021, version 8.47 is available in several popular, standard LINUX Repositories, so installation can be as simple as any other mainstream application. For example, if you are using any Arch-based system (Arch, Manjaro, etc.) then just adding the popular "AUR" (Arch User Repository) according to well-established norms will make lac available through your standard application management tools, and you will be able to find it within AUR with a search for "linux-air-combat" or simply for "combat flight simulator". Here's a link with further details (including a YouTube PlayList showing EXACTLY how I got lac working on a brand-new, bare-bones Manjaro system in early June of 2021):

https://sourceforge.net/p/linuxairco...ad/766d74ce53/

LAC is also available for Debian and Debian-based systems through the well-known "OBS" ("Open Build Service") Repository. Here's a discussion from the Debian Forums that reveals exactly how to enable and use that repository for the easiest lac installation:

http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.p...art=15#p738050


For MX Linux (search for "linux-air-combat"):

MX Linux V19: http://mxrepo.com/MX19TestPackages.html

MX Linux V17: http://mxrepo.com/MX17TestPackages.html

I think other official or semi-official repository packages will soon appear. If your version of LINUX doesn't have a lac repo package yet, you can still compile it from source code. The process is essentially unchanged, but newer, more detailed instructions are available here:

https://sourceforge.net/p/linuxairco...ad/384a15a9db/

Update (Nov2021):

Linux Air Combat ("LAC") is now available as an "AppImage". This results in a precompiled, executable binary program that launches Linux Air Combat Version 8.51 from a self-contained, self-extracting, multi-file archive containing all prerequisites. It is configured according to the well-known "AppImage" conventions for (almost) universal compatibility among many popular LINUX distros using industry-standard "x86" architecture. Accordingly, if you just want to run LAC without compiling it, this is probably your best, simplest option. Just download it, mark it as "executable" according to well-known LINUX norms, and then execute it. If your hardware is based on x86 architecture and if your LINUX distro is "mainstream" and has been updated since about December of 2020, it will start right up! I hope it minimizes complexities related to installation and early testing.

Download from here:

https://sourceforge.net/projects/lin...rce%20code%29/