Ok, thanks, I will add the link on the main download page and please feel
free to review it and send me any needed corrections or improvements.
Thanks,
Curt.
On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 3:50 PM, Saikrishna Arcot <saiarcot...@gmail.com>wrote:
> You can use https://launchpad.net/~saiarcot895/+archive/flightgear.
> There's a section on the page for users to easily add the PPA
> (basically the "location" of the packages) to their system.
>
> This applies to Ubuntu Oneiric (11.10), Ubuntu Precise (12.04), Ubuntu
> Quantal (12.10), and Ubuntu Raring (13.04) (this is a development
> version, so there may be few, if anyone, on this). If there are people
> who are on an earlier version of Ubuntu, then I can easily add a
> package for that version.
>
> Saikrishna Arcot
>
> On Tue 19 Feb 2013 03:28:52 PM CST, Curtis Olson wrote:
> > Hi Saikrishna,
> >
> > Is there a top level link I can point people to from the main
> > flightgear download page? I'm not personally familiar with launchpad
> > or the 'ppa' acronym. I'd love to keep the entry on the flightgear
> > page as concise as possible. Is there a particular distribution this
> > applies to?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Curt.
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 5:12 AM, Saikrishna Arcot
> > <saiarcot...@gmail.com <mailto:saiarcot...@gmail.com>> wrote:
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I just wanted to let everyone know here that I created a PPA for
> > FlightGear on Launchpad and have compiled and uploaded FlightGear
> > 2.10.0 for Oneiric and above. Unfortunately, the fgfs-base isn't
> > available at the moment, so users will have to download that
> > separately. The link to the PPA itself is
> > https://launchpad.net/~saiarcot895/+archive/flightgear
> > <https://launchpad.net/%7Esaiarcot895/+archive/flightgear>. Users
> > can follow the following steps to use the PPA and flightgear:
> >
> > 1. Add ppa:saiarcot895/flightgear to their list of sources,
> > either using Software Sources or "sudo add-apt-repository
> > ppa:saiarcot895/flightgear".
> > 2. Do an update using "apt-get update".
> > 3. Either use Synaptic to install FlightGear or do "sudo apt-get
> > install flightgear". Both will automatically install SimGear
> > as well.
> >
> > I've installed the version I uploaded and things seem to be
> > running well. I have encountered two problems so far. One is that
> > I don't see any AI aircraft, but I'm not sure if that's just me or
> > if it's a bug. Another is that some patches of terrain are dark,
> > but as I get closer, they turn light and can be seen again. I'm on
> > an Intel GPU, so I'm not sure if it's because of that.
> >
> > Anyways, I've uploaded some screenshots from 2.10.0 here
> > <
> https://picasaweb.google.com/103387392510447269112/FlightGear2100?authuser=0&authkey=Gv1sRgCKXaocKSqp2G_wE&feat=directlink
> >
> > (the black plane is, I'm assuming, a GPU bug since 2.8.0).
> >
> > --
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> >
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