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<tt>download_and_compile.sh</tt> is a Bash script that takes care of downloading and compiling FlightGear and related software from their source code repositories with just one command execution for both 32-bit and 64-bit [https://www.debian.org/ Debian]-based systems. Pre-existing versions (if any) of the software installed by <tt>download_and_compile.sh</tt> are not touched at all since the script downloads, builds and installs everything under the directory in which it is launched. You can choose the particular components to download, build and install. | <tt>download_and_compile.sh</tt> is a Bash script that takes care of downloading and compiling FlightGear and related software from their source code repositories with just one command execution for both 32-bit and 64-bit [https://www.debian.org/ Debian]-based systems. Pre-existing versions (if any) of the software installed by <tt>download_and_compile.sh</tt> are not touched at all since the script downloads, builds and installs everything under the directory in which it is launched. You can choose the particular components to download, build and install. | ||
Unless told not to do so, <tt>download_and_compile.sh</tt> installs packages with <tt>apt-get</tt>. For this reason, it is primarily useful on Debian-based distributions. However, if one disables package installation (using <code>-pn</code> or <code>--sudo=echo</code>) and installs the corresponding dependencies oneself, it can be | Unless told not to do so, <tt>download_and_compile.sh</tt> installs packages with <tt>apt-get</tt>. For this reason, it is primarily useful on Debian-based distributions. However, if one disables package installation (using <code>-pn</code> or <code>--sudo=echo</code>) and installs the corresponding dependencies oneself, it can be used on other Unix-like systems such as [https://fedoraproject.org/ Fedora Linux], [https://archlinux.org/ Arch Linux] or [https://www.openbsd.org/ OpenBSD]. | ||
Unrelated to <tt>download_and_compile.sh</tt>, these pages might be useful: | |||
* [[CentOS]] for <tt>rpm</tt>-based distributions such as Redhat, Fedora and CentOS; | |||
* [[Superbuild]]. | |||
== Introduction == | == Introduction == | ||