Flightgear

[olderunner]

Anyone had success installing flightgear? If so, how did you install it.
Thanks

[kyphi]

I do not have flightgear installed but it is in Synaptic:

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sudo apt-get install flightgear

[vrkalak]

Yes. Flight-Gear in the repros, avialable for install the Synapic Package Manager.

Main Flight-Gear Site > http://www.flightgear.org/
Flight-Gear Wiki page > http://wiki.flightgear.org/Main_Page

[olderunner]

I've tried synaptic but it doesn't install the executable.
If I download the deb from the flightgear site it installs but crashes.
Looking for someone who has a working flightgear on their lmde.
Thanks for the replies though...

[filozofio]

Yes, I can confirm that the LMDE repositories only have flightgear data files. But the main program files are not there.

1. One solution is to compile the program, as it is explained here: http://wiki.flightgear.org/Building_FlightGear_-_Debian

I have done it, with some adaptations, and it works. If you are still interested, I can reproduce for you the steps I did.

2. Other solution, that probably also works would be to add the testing repository

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deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free

to your sources list. You can do this in Origins of Software program. Then update the repositories

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sudo apt-get update

.

Then install flightgear, and afterwards disable the testing repository again and again update the repositories.

I have not done this, but I have seen that probably no dependencies conflicts will appear. Nevertheless, the best solution, the clean one, is the first.