FlightGear 2024 should (also) install dependency qt5-quickcontrols2

[CShell]

I installed the latest FlightGear this week (version 2024-1) -- and "Thank you !" to FreeBSD package maintainer for getting that package together.

My FlightGear install looks like this: (14.3-RELEASE-p5):

shell$ pkg info | grep flightgear
flightgear-2024.1.1            FlightGear flight simulator
flightgear-data-2024.1.1       FlightGear scenery, textures, and aircraft models
shell$

Which is good ! However for the FlightGear launcher to work correctly it fails when QT5 QuickControl2 is not installed. The FlightGear launcher is the "really cool" part of FlightGear where you can access the airplane hanger to select aircraft, set flight simulator settings, airport location and a TON of other settings. The FlightGear launcher is run with:

shell$ fgfs --launcher=1

My QuickControl2 library install looks like:

shell$ pkg info | grep qt5-quickcontrols2
qt5-quickcontrols2-5.15.18p5   Set of controls for building complete interfaces in Qt Quick (KDE patched)
shell$

Happy gaming !

 

[kent_dorfman766]

I would suspect that many folks who play with flightgear don't use the launcher. I know I prefer to start fgfs by specifying all needed command args in a startup script.

 

[cracauer@]

I would suspect that many folks who play with flightgear don't use the launcher. I know I prefer to start fgfs by specifying all needed command args in a startup script.

That's what I did.