On Thu, Mar 05, 2009 at 03:57:48PM +0900, Bret Busby wrote: > On Wed, 4 Mar 2009, Daniel Burrows wrote: > >> >> On Thu, Mar 05, 2009 at 01:16:31AM +0900, Bret Busby <b...@busby.net> was >> heard to say: >>> b...@bretnewworkstation:~$ cat >>> /usr/share/applications/flightgear.desktop >>> cat: /usr/share/applications/flightgear.desktop: No such file or >>> directory >> >> Looks like you don't have that file at all. >> >>> From history in Synaptic; >>> >>> "Commit Log for Mon Mar 2 13:41:22 2009 >>> >>> >>> Installed the following packages: >>> fgfs-base (0.9.10-1) >>> flightgear (0.9.10-2) >> ^^^^^^^^ >> >> That's the package from etch, which is now obsolete. > > I did say, in the intitial posting, at the start of the thread, that I > am running Debian 4.0.
Ah, sorry, I missed that when I replied earlier. Mea culpa. I'm still using etch for a few servers, too, but none of them has flightgear installed ;) > I had delayed upgrading to Debian 5.0, as people appear to still have > problems with upgrading to Debian 5.0, so I thought that it would be > better to wait until things had settled, with Debian 5.0, perhaps, when > release 2 appears, or something similar. I downloaded the package from lenny, and the .desktop file is really simple. I've attached it to this email. Just save the file, and then: $ sudo mv /path/to/the/flightgear.desktop /usr/share/applications (assuming you use sudo) I'm not sure if you have to run any update-* commands after adding the file. Hopefully someone else can help out with that one. Sorry again for the bunk advice earlier. Cheers, -- Eric Gerlach, Network Administrator Federation of Students University of Waterloo p: (519) 888-4567 x36329 e: egerl...@feds.uwaterloo.ca
[Desktop Entry] Encoding=UTF-8 Type=Application Version=1.4 Name=FlightGear Exec=fgfs Terminal=false Categories=Game;Simulation; Comment=A flight simulator Comment[pt]=Simula????o de V??o Icon=
