Linux & Windows installed together?

[inktomi]

Hello -

I'd like to give XPlane in Linux a try, but I can't seem to figure out how to get the installer to realize that I've already installed the whole world's scenery, and that I just need the bits that are different for linux vs windows.

Is this possible to do? Or do I really need to have two different installs with a bunch of simlinks for the scenery going from the linux install to the windows install?

Thanks

[ksgy]

I've installed x-plane (linux) to a NTFS partition, installed all the sceneries

Rebooted to windows, downloaded the updater(!) and there I choosen the x-plane forder where I installed previously.

The updater recognized it's an xplane folder, but all the exe/dll files are missing -> downloaded -> it's ready for flying

Should work the other way too.

[inktomi]

The problem is that on linux the updater/installer that they have on the x-plane.com site doesn't detect that I have X-Plane installed on my NTFS drive.

When I tell it that I want to use the same location and install... I get an "X-Plane Already Exists" error.

I'm thinking I'm missing some flag on my system or something.

[ksgy]

Anyway, afaik the win and linux xplane are almost equal, excelpt the root xplane folders content.

Make a backup, then download the linux demo and copy all files (but not the directories!) from there to windows version xplane. Also copy Resources/plugins/*.so files to win version.

After that, run installer/updater on both win and linux. It should recognize from there.