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* aircraft dependencies need to be determined and satisfied manually
* aircraft dependencies need to be determined and satisfied manually
* aircraft need to be manually installed by extracting archive to base package
* aircraft need to be manually installed by extracting archive to base package
* Most distributions of Linux will install the FG Root as read only to standard users.<br>This means that the user is unable to extract a new aircraft to the same directory tree. See subsection
* Most distributions of Linux will install the FG Root as read only to standard users.<br />This means that the user is unable to extract a new aircraft to the same directory tree. See subsection


= Desirable Long-Term Goals =
= Desirable Long-Term Goals =
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* allow aircraft to be fully searchable based on aircraft-type/development status (i.e. provide meta info to be used by GUI & web frontends) [[Formalizing Aircraft Status]]
* allow aircraft to be fully searchable based on aircraft-type/development status (i.e. provide meta info to be used by GUI & web frontends) [[Formalizing Aircraft Status]]
* allow aircraft to be downloaded from within FlightGear on demand
* allow aircraft to be downloaded from within FlightGear on demand
* allow aircraft to be installed from within FlightGear
* allow aircraft to be installed from within FlightGear
* allow aircraft to be uninstalled/removed (managed) from within FlightGear
* allow aircraft to be uninstalled/removed (managed) from within FlightGear
* allow aircraft to be updated from within FlightGear
* allow aircraft to be updated from within FlightGear
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Process
Process
# User selects an aircraft which is not available
# User selects an aircraft which is not available
# Sub process is created to deal with the request (rather than holding up the entire launcher)
# Sub process is created to deal with the request (rather than holding up the entire launcher)
# Process will commence downloading the selected aircraft
# Process will commence downloading the selected aircraft
# Extract the aircraft to a user writable Aircraft directory.
# Extract the aircraft to a user writable Aircraft directory.
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* http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1434342&group_id=65363&atid=510696
* http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1434342&group_id=65363&atid=510696
* http://flightgear.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=2214#p17600 [http://flightgear.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=2214]
* http://flightgear.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=2214#p17600 [http://flightgear.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=2214]
[[Category:Development]]
[[Category:Development]]
[[Category: RFC]]
[[Category:RFC]]

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