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The latest official [[aircraft]] | The preferred option to install the latest official [[aircraft]] is through the aircraft tab in the [[FlightGear Qt launcher|built-in launcher]], as explained in the following video. The remainder of this article describes the manual process, only to be performed when not using the launcher. | ||
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== Manual installation process == | |||
Aircraft packages are available on [http://www.flightgear.org/download/ FlightGear.org Aircraft]. These require unzipping software to extract from a compressed file format. Then these must be manually installed in a FlightGear software installation to use. The details depend on the method of download, operating system, and user setup. | Aircraft packages are available on [http://www.flightgear.org/download/ FlightGear.org Aircraft]. These require unzipping software to extract from a compressed file format. Then these must be manually installed in a FlightGear software installation to use. The details depend on the method of download, operating system, and user setup. | ||
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== When installing an aircraft fails == | == When installing an aircraft fails == | ||
=== Rename | === Rename aircraft folder === | ||
If FlightGear fails to start with the new aircraft you have installed, or if it starts but the aircraft is invisible you might have to rename the folder where the aircraft files are. | If FlightGear fails to start with the new aircraft you have installed, or if it starts but the aircraft is invisible you might have to rename the folder where the aircraft files are. | ||
This issue is most often encountered when downloading a .zip file from some online git repository. In those cases you will most likely end up with a folder name of the following form MyZippedRepo-[branch]. In this case you should rename the folder to be just '''MyZippedRepo'''. | This issue is most often encountered when downloading a .zip file from some online git repository. In those cases you will most likely end up with a folder name of the following form MyZippedRepo-[branch]. In this case you should rename the folder to be just '''MyZippedRepo'''. | ||
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To fix this on Linux try this: | To fix this on Linux try this: | ||
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$ cd path/to/aircraft/directory/ | $ cd path/to/aircraft/directory/ | ||
$ find . -name "*.xml" -print | xargs sed -i 's/<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>/<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>/g' | $ find . -name "*.xml" -print | xargs sed -i 's/<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>/<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>/g' | ||
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If any of the methods above do not work, ask around on the [[Howto:Multiplayer#Multiplayer chat|multiplayer chat]], [[FlightGear IRC channel|IRC]] or on the {{forum link|f=11|text=forum}}. | If any of the methods above do not work, ask around on the [[Howto:Multiplayer#Multiplayer chat|multiplayer chat]], [[FlightGear IRC channel|IRC]] or on the {{forum link|f=11|text=forum}}. | ||
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External links to third party aircraft can be found at [[FlightGear hangars]]. Remember that the latest aircraft may not load with previous versions. If you happen to use an older version of FlightGear, look for older aircraft in the links section. | External links to third party aircraft can be found at [[FlightGear hangars]]. Remember that the latest aircraft may not load with previous versions. If you happen to use an older version of FlightGear, look for older aircraft in the links section. | ||
==Video | ==Video tutorial by the community== | ||
{{#ev:youtube|OiqGjc8W880|480px||Tutorial on downloading and installing aircraft from Github pages by PINTO. Adding manually downloaded aircraft folders in the [[FlightGear_Qt_launcher|qt-launcher]] is pretty much the same for non-github downloads too. Aircraft are often developed on Github. This shows you to the download Github versions of aircraft that are not in FGAddon yet for whatever reason, and the latest work-in-progress state of some aircraft in FGAddon for testing and feedback. (September 2019)}} | {{#ev:youtube|OiqGjc8W880|480px||Tutorial on downloading and installing aircraft from Github pages by PINTO. Adding manually downloaded aircraft folders in the [[FlightGear_Qt_launcher|qt-launcher]] is pretty much the same for non-github downloads too. Aircraft are often developed on Github. This shows you to the download Github versions of aircraft that are not in FGAddon yet for whatever reason, and the latest work-in-progress state of some aircraft in FGAddon for testing and feedback. (September 2019)}} | ||
== Gallery (2017+) == | == Gallery (2017+) == | ||
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</gallery> | </gallery> | ||
== Related content == | |||
* [[Installing Scenery]] | |||
[[Category:Howto|Install aircraft]] | [[Category:Howto|Install aircraft]] | ||