Howto:Install Flightgear from a PPA

Currently, in the official Ubuntu repositories, Ubuntu 12.04 (Precise) has FlightGear 2.4.0, Ubuntu 12.10 (Quantal) and Ubuntu 13.04 (Raring) have FlightGear 2.6.0, and Ubuntu 13.10 (Saucy) has FlightGear 2.10.0. The upcoming Ubuntu 14.04 (Trusty) will have FlightGear 3.0.0. Since the older Ubuntu versions don't have a simple installation method, I'm providing a PPA from which you can download FlightGear and some aircraft from. Here is a list of FlightGear-related PPAs:

• Stable: FlightGear
• Prerelease: FlightGear Prerelease (only active when there is a new release coming up)
• Daily(ish): FlightGear Daily

Installing FlightGear

NOTE: The menu bar may be initially hidden. You can restore this using the F10 key.

Upgrading

You can just update and upgrade. Note that, after the upgrade, you will have the packages libsimgearcore2.12.0 and libsimgearscene2.12.0. You can safely remove these two libraries after the upgrade.

 sudo apt-get update
 sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

Fresh install

If you are doing a fresh FlightGear install (you haven't installed FlightGear from this PPA or the prerelease/daily PPAs) and you haven't added this PPA, you'll need to do the commands below:

 sudo add-apt-repository ppa:saiarcot895/flightgear
 sudo apt-get update
 sudo apt-get install flightgear

Installing additional aircraft

I am providing some additional aircraft that you can download straight from the PPA. To install them, run the following command:

 sudo apt-get install flightgear-data-aircrafts-aircraftname

Replace aircraftname with one of the following:

aircraftname	Aircraft
a10	Fairchild Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II
a380	Airbus A380
b747-400	Boeing 747-400
dc3	Douglas DC-3
dr400-dauphin	Robin DR400 Dauphin
ec130	Eurocopter EC130 B4
p51d	P-51 Mustang
seafire	Supermarine Seafire
spitfire	Supermarine Spitfire
tu154b	Tupolev Tu-154B