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Installation

Note

Some packages or installers may supply an auto-updater that will ask to self-update when a new version of FlightCore is available.

FlightCore currently offers support for the folowing platforms:

  • Windows (10, 11)
    • x86_64
  • Linux
    • x86_64

It is important to note, it may be possible to compile the software for other system architectures when building the app manually.

Official software packages

Windows Installer

Installation steps:

  1. Download a FlightCore_<version>_x64_en-US.msi file from the releases page.
  2. Run the downloaded file by double-clicking it.
  3. Follow on-screen instructions.

Linux AppImage

AppImage releases are currently borked.

Community software packages

Nixpkgs package

This package is maintained by username-generic.

Installation steps can be found here.

Building from source

Steps for building FlightCore from source can be found in docs/DEVELOPMENT.md.

Creating a desktop entry

On Linux, to get FlightCore to show up within your application launchers, you may also want to create an XDG Desktop Entry at /home/<username>/.local/share/applications/FlightCore.desktop with the following contents:

[Desktop Entry]
Categories=Game;PackageManager
Comment=Updater and mod manager for Northstar 
Exec=<path to local repository>/src-tauri/target/release/flightcore 
Icon=<path to local repository>/src-tauri/target/release/flightcore 
Name=FlightCore 
Terminal=false 
Type=Application 
Version=1.5