# Download the Source Code

### Important Information

- For a complete FGFS manual, please refer to the official FlightGear Manual or download the PDF Version.
- If you have trouble connecting to ftp.flightgear.org, please visit one of our FTP mirrors
- FreeGlut 2.4.0 has a critical bug that crashes FlightGear. If you plan to use FreeGlut instead of SDL you will need to upgrade to FreeGlut-2.6.0.

### Source Code Release: Version 2.0.0 (Updated February 25, 2010)

- Download the latest source code release:
- Download the latest base package release (295Mb). (Includes Textures, models, data, aircraft, sample scenery, and config files.)
- Prerequisite: Open Scene Graph - An open source scene graph management and graphics effects library.
- Prerequisite: Boost - free peer-reviewed portable C++ source libraries. You will need boost-1.37.0 or newer. (A suitable version is included with many (most?) Linux distributions.)
- Prerequisite: Glut (FreeGlut) - OpenGL Utility Toolkit (GLUT) library.
- Prerequisite: OpenAL - We recommend OpenAl Soft 1.11.753 (or higher). Many current Linux distributions now include OpenAL Soft so check and you may already have this installed or available.
- Prerequisite: plib - portability libraries and scene graph. You need plib-1.8.5 or newer to build FlightGear 2.0.0.
- Prerequisite: SimGear - simulation construction tools. You need SimGear-2.0.0 to compile FlightGear-2.0.0.
- Documentation is included with the base package.

### Historical Material

- Download previous releases of the source code:
- Download version 0.7.x related stuff:
- Download version 0.6.x and earlier related stuff:

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### Latest Version

v2.0.0 - 18 Feb 2010

A new major update of the FligtGear simulator. Please check the readme

### Notam

Would all pilots try and avoid mpserver02 as its often overloaded.