Requirements

What's needed to make it work

X-Plane

X-Plane 11.10 or above, regularly tested on latest 12.x release, will be continuously maintained for latest available stable X-Plane release (not necessarily for beta releases).

Compatibility with X-Plane 10 has been dropped, but LiveTraffic v1.5, the last version running on X-Plane 10, is kept available for download. Documentation for v1.50 will also stay available: Make sure to select v1.50 in the top left corner.

Operating System

Windows

• Tested on Windows 11, latest release. Supposed to work on Windows 10.

• Reportedly works on Windows 7 and 8.1, no guarantees

• A recent version the "Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2019" is required for LiveTraffic to run on Windows. It is often available already, but not necessarily up-todate. Find a Microsoft support article here. Download and install vc_redist.x64.exe. If LiveTraffic doesn't start and the only thing about LiveTraffic that Log.txt contains looks like .../win_x64/LiveTraffic.xpl : Error Code = ### ... then most likely you're missing this redistributable or it is not up-to-date.

MacOS

• Developed and tested on MacOS Sequoia 15.3

• Supposed to work on MacOS Catalina (10.15) upward.

• Provided as a signed and notarized universal binary for both Silicon and Intel architectures, works in native Silicon mode

Linux

• Many thanks to sparker for providing a Docker setup for building Linux. I do not have a Linux runtime environment and cannot test, analyse, or debug Linux-specific issues.

• LiveTraffic requires a fairly recent Linux environment. The following is known:

  • Built on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, so runs on similar systems.

  • Successful installations on UbuntuArch Linux, Manjaro, Mint. Packages required to be installed:

    • curl and libcurl3 for networking, often but not always in by default. This makes libcurl.so.4 (with CURL_OPENSSL_4) available. Incompatibilities with libcurl are the most common source of problems, also see below for some hints.

    • xdg-utils needed for opening web pages (help menu and buttons, download link), Ubuntu has it by default.

  • Not working on Lubuntu/Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, 16.04 LTS, Mint 18.1 due to issues with libcurl/CURL_OPENSSL_4.

  • If you are on a Steam-based installation, then the following tip may help you fixing CURL_OPENSSL_4 version issues:

    • For XP11, add the launch option:LD_LIBRARY_PATH=~/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam-runtime/i386/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu:~/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam-runtime/i386/lib/i386-linux-gnu %command%

    • That was from the Steam "This War of Mine" community.

    • Here another link to try to understand this all more on Steam (at least on Arch Linux).

  • Here a general tip how to potentially fix issues finding libcurl from a Support forum post:

    • Created a symbolic link between the installed 64 bit libcurl.so.4 file and the directory where LT was looking (take it from the error message in log.txt). In the author's case, the commands looked like this:

      • To find the directory, check the output from locate libcurl.so.4

      • Then create the link between the directory and Steam (note that your file paths will differ):

        sudo ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcurl.so.4 ~/.steam/ubuntu12_32/steam-runtime/pinned_libs_64/libcurl.so.4

CSL Packages

CSL packages provide the aircraft models that you will see in X-Plane's sky. See installation for details. Recommendations:

• "Bluebell" OBJ8 CSL packages

• X-CSL