A Question about FlightGear 2024 (Appimage)

[vatosflokos]

Hi everyone,
I have just downloaded flightgear 2024 version which is only available via appimage. I downloaded the app from the official website.

I open it via another app called Appimage Pool. It works flawlessy but there’s a slight problem: every time I run the app it needs to download 1.9 GB of data.

What can I do so the app’s data stay consistent and stored in my pc, so I won’t have to downloaded every time? I would be grateful for any help…

Thank you all! Phil

[Nachlese]

I put the Appimage in ~/local/bin (which is in my $PATH) and made it executable - that way I can start it by typing the name of the Appimage in the terminal.

I don’t use an extra Appimage launcher like:

@vatosflokos

I open it via another app called Appimage Pool.

The ~1.8 GB of data where downloaded to
~/.fgfs/fgdata_2024_1
but there was, on first start, the option to choose another folder

When I quit and start again, it doesn’t want to download all that again - as expected, it uses the data in that directory.

jo@mint:~/.fgfs/fgdata_2024_1$ du -hs ./
2,7G	./

Perhaps your launcher runs the Appimage in a sandbox from where it has no access to the data directory?
Don’t know.

[vatosflokos]

Thanks! It worked