Little Navmap cant find my installation of XPlane 11 (steam)

[daifuco]

Hi recently got into flight simulation and was recommended this tool.

I have a rare problem when I installed it on Ubuntu 24.04. LNM cant find X-Plane 11

 

The strange thing is that it has no problem finding the XP12 demo I installed. The demo is not from steam and it is sitting on the Home directory.

I have read manuals, uninstalling and reinstalling both XP11 and LNM several times, googled for it but no luck. Also created a symbolic link from the steam directory to Home directory but again no luck.

If anyone has any clue of what could be going on, or any possible workaround It would be very welcome.

[albar965]

No need to install or uninstall anything. This won't help. X-Plane creates a text file once started that LNM uses to detect an X-Plane installation. Look if this is accessible and contains the right path to the X-Plane installation. Check the file "$HOME/.x-plane/x-plane_install_11.txt"

Quoting from the FAQ:

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How does Little Navmap find an X-Plane installation

Little Navmap detects a X-Plane 11 or 12 installation by looking for the files below (examples for X-Plane 12):

• Windows: C:\Users\USER\AppData\Local\x-plane_install_12.txt
• macOS: /Users/USER/Library/Preferences/x-plane_install_12.txt
• Linux /home/USER/.x-plane/x-plane_install_12.txt

The files contain one line for each X-Plane installation pointing to the base path.

Little Navmap will disable the simulator in the load scenery library dialog window if the files are missing or contain invalid paths. The first path found is used as the base path.

 

I suppose your XP11 Steam is running as native a Linux application and not in a VM or Windows emulation layer like Wine. Non-native makes things more complicated.

 

Alex

[daifuco]

On 11/5/2024 at 1:43 PM, albar965 said:

No need to install or uninstall anything. This won't help. X-Plane creates a text file once started that LNM uses to detect an X-Plane installation. Look if this is accessible and contains the right path to the X-Plane installation. Check the file "$HOME/.x-plane/x-plane_install_11.txt"

Quoting from the FAQ:

 

I suppose your XP11 Steam is running as native a Linux application and not in a VM or Windows emulation layer like Wine. Non-native makes things more complicated.

 

Alex

Thanks a lot for your reply Alex.

I found the folder at [code]/home/{my_user_name}/snap/steam/common/.x-plane[/code] so its proably a ubuntu snap steam issue

typical inconsistencies of the linux world I guess. Maybe I should install steam with the vanilla installer and not the ubuntu default one.

I made a symbolic link to that deeper than normal .x-plane folder but It did not work. Just copying it to the expected place made LNM work for now.
I am bit worried that the folder could contain dynamic data.

The app is amazing. Thanks again.

[albar965]

13 hours ago, daifuco said:

Thanks a lot for your reply Alex.

I found the folder at [code]/home/{my_user_name}/snap/steam/common/.x-plane[/code] so its proably a ubuntu snap steam issue

typical inconsistencies of the linux world I guess. Maybe I should install steam with the vanilla installer and not the ubuntu default one.

I made a symbolic link to that deeper than normal .x-plane folder but It did not work. Just copying it to the expected place made LNM work for now.
I am bit worried that the folder could contain dynamic data.

The app is amazing. Thanks again.

You're welcome. Didn't know that XP is installed via Snap.

Alex