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Steve: I just confirmed that the LAC repository archive you created for Debian10 works splendidly. First I created a brand-new, "virgin" installation of Debian 10 with the light-weight "xfce" desktop, fully upgraded as of the current date (early June 2021), but without any additi...

Steve (and all), Your work continues to inspire related progress. Somebody using the handle "alfrednewman" has created a repository entry for LAC V8.47 in the "Arch User Repository" (AUR), making LAC easily available for Arch Linux and Manjaro Linux. Because Version 8.47 automate...

Steve: I have learned of your struggles to get LAC to compile successfully on the latest version(s) of Ubuntu for X86 architectures. I haven't suffered with that but there is a discussion about it in one of our forums that you may find helpful. Look here: https://sourceforge.net/p/linuxaircombat/dis...

Steve: I have the new version of LAC you've been expecting. It's version 8.47, available through my archive "Lac08p47.tar.gz" here: https://sourceforge.net/projects/linuxaircombat/files/Choose%20Your%20Platform/Most%20LINUX%20Desktops%20%28in%20the%20global%20usr%20filesystem%20for%20all%2...

Understood. I will add logic inside LAC to copy DefaultHeightMap.LAC from wherever you put it in /etc to its required location inside the .LAC folder whenever it is missing. The next revision of LAC will get that (and all of the other details recently discussed in this thread). Just let me know wher...

OK Steve, thanks. I confirm that your suggestion to add "-f" works correctly in my prototype of the next version. Accordingly, all subsequent releases of LAC will include and benefit from that tiny change. ONE MORE LITTLE CHANGE: When the current version (Lac08p45.tar.gz) builds the initia...

OK Steve. Here's a link to the latest version, which has just one tiny change in the startup logic: If the required, hidden ".LAC" configuration folder could not be found in the user's home directory, prior versions would create and populate it, display a diagnostic message urging the user...

Steve: It sounds like you have an initial Debian install that more-or-less works but might be confusing to some users the first time LAC is run. I'm glad to hear of that progress. Thanks! While reporting your progress, you wrote: "There's no LAC folders in the user's home after installing the d...

Steve, You and I worked on this project for awhile several months ago. Perhaps those old activities have led to some confusion? My old "install.sh" script had an extra, redundant step in it that created the hidden ".LAC" folder for configuration files and then populated that fold...

Steve, you wrote: "Just about all the other *nix programs leave it to the program itself to check for the existence of its config folder in the user's home folder when it's run by the regular user. if it's not there, then it creates the folder and sets up any files in it that it requires."...

Steve, you wrote: "Have you thought about having the LAC program itself creating its folder in the home folder? It can either create any necessary files there at the same time, or copy them from an /etc/LAC folder, which would be created and populated either from the Makefile or manually by the...

Steve: Your copyright file looks like it meets the specified requirements. I saw and tested the "Source" link you inserted and I confirm that it correctly accesses LAC's main web site as expected. I added a copyright reference to myself in the "Files" section according to the pat...

Steve: THANKS for giving this your attention. I've uploaded a 32x32-pixel icon file named "Lac.png" in the SourceForge folder containing Lac08p43.tar.gz. Here's a direct link to that little file: https://sourceforge.net/projects/linuxaircombat/files/Choose%20Your%20Platform/Most%20LINUX%20...

For those following the "Linux Air Combat" or "LAC" portion of this thread, I have just posted a new, updated thread focusing on LAC and its readiness for the official Debian repository as soon as one of the packagers can take the final, necessary steps. That thread (originally p...

From time to time this forum has enthusiastically referenced "Linux Air Combat" which is a new, free, open-source combat flight simulator that I wrote for LINUX. Most of that discussion can be found in THIS old thread: http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=145168 Linux Air Comb...

When you can dedicate the necessary time to package this up I thought the MX developers were packaging it, is that not the case? If not I might be able to take a look at it again but I'm mad busy at the moment so it may take a while. Thanks. It's clear that skilled developers and packagers are all ...

Another update (11Nov2020) While I am waiting for the valuable attention that I need from one of you generous packaging/installation experts, I continue to try to ensure everything is as perfected and ready as possible. Accordingly, I've made just one more tiny little adjustment to Linux Air Combat ...

Update: I have made more progress to help packagers/installers as I have continued to learn the fine points. The latest version is here: https://askmisterwizard.com/2019/LinuxAirCombat/Installers/Lac08p35.tar.gz Routine users won't see any change in the feature set; menus, flight, missions, and airc...

Thanks for helping me learn about these requirements and conventions. While I am waiting, I am continuing to apply what I learn. My unpublished version 8.33 is evolving accordingly. Now I have all of the resource files moved to a new location at /usr/share/lac/. The executable is now at /usr/bin. Al...

I will change it from /usr/sbin to /usr/bin then. Thanks!