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{{obsolete|FlightGear Qt launcher}}
{{caution|This launcher does not work on OS X Yosemite (10.10) or later.}}
[[File:FlightGear Mac OS X Screenshot.png|thumb|The Mac OS X launcher.]]


{{caution|This launcher does not work at all on OS X Yosemite (10.10) or later. See the '''Removal''' section.}}
The '''FlightGear Mac OS X Launcher''' was a graphical front end for [[FlightGear]] which was included in official Mac releases from [[FlightGear 0.9.10]] to 3.2. It is not compatible with OS X Yosemite (10.10) and later because some libraries required for it to work were removed by Apple (see {{issue|1521}}). For this reason, it was replaced by the [[FlightGear Qt launcher]] in FlightGear 3.4 and later.
[[File:FlightGear Mac OS X Screenshot.png|right]]


The '''FlightGear Mac OS X Launcher''' was a graphical front end for [[FlightGear]] which was included in official Mac releases from [[FlightGear 0.9.10]] to 3.2. The launcher allowed one to choose options more easily than with the command line.
== Launching FlightGear without launcher ==
 
Users who have OS X Yosemite or later, but who are still on an older version of FlightGear without Qt launcher, can either:
== Removal ==
The launcher is not compatible with OS X Yosemite (10.10) and later because some libraries required for it to work were removed by Apple (see {{issue|1521}}). For this reason, it was replaced by the [[FlightGear Qt launcher]] in FlightGear 3.4 and later.
 
Users who have OS X Yosemite or later, but who are still on an older version of FlightGear, can either:
* use the command line (<tt>Terminal.app</tt>) to start the simulator. Open it and issue the following commands:
* use the command line (<tt>Terminal.app</tt>) to start the simulator. Open it and issue the following commands:
<syntaxhighlight lang="bash">cd /Applications/FlightGear.app/Contents/Resources
<syntaxhighlight lang="bash">cd /Applications/FlightGear.app/Contents/Resources