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Install Rigs of Rods on Ubuntu 13.04, Linux Mint via PPA

Last updated: July 14, 2017

This brief tutorial will show you how to install the Rigs of Rods on Ubuntu 13.04 Raring and Linux Mint using the official repository.

Rigs of Rods (“RoR”) is an open source multi-simulation game which uses soft-body physics to simulate the motion and deformation of vehicles. The game was built using a specific soft-body physics engine called Beam, which simulates a network of interconnected nodes (forming the chassis and the wheels) and gives the ability to simulate deformable objects. With this engine, vehicles and their loads flex and deform as stresses are applied. Crashing into walls or terrain can permanently deform a vehicle.

The official ppa repository for Ubuntu 12.04 has been announced. So far it supports Ubuntu 13.04, 12.10, 12.04 and 11.10. Here’s how to install it:

Press Ctrl+Alt+T to open terminal, run command to add the ppa:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:aapo-rantalainen/rigsofrods

Then update package lists and install the package:

sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get install rigsofrods

Discuss: http://www.rigsofrods.com/threads/97932-Announcement-PPA-for-Ubuntu-12-04

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    4 responses to Install Rigs of Rods on Ubuntu 13.04, Linux Mint via PPA

    1. Martin Jones August 1, 2015 at 8:54 pm

      I followed your instructions, and got error “E:Unable to locate package rigsofrogs”
      Then I tried running the install command again:

      sudo apt-get install rigsofrodsReading package lists… Done
      Building dependency tree
      Reading state information… Done
      E: Unable to locate package rigsofrods

      Here is the whole screen dump of what I did:
      user@user-Latitude-E6520 /tmp $ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:aapo-rantalainen/rigsofrods
      [sudo] password for user:
      You are about to add the following PPA to your system:
      Rigs of Rods
      Use:
      sudo add-apt-repository ppa:aapo-rantalainen/rigsofrods
      sudo apt-get update
      sudo apt-get install rigsofrods

      —–
      Discuss: ‘http://www.rigsofrods.com/threads/97932-Announcement-PPA-for-Ubuntu-12-04’
      —–
      Git repository for packaging: ‘https://gitorious.org/ror-ppa’

      libogre: ‘http://ogre3d.org/’
      angelscript: ‘http://www.angelcode.com/angelscript/’
      libmygui: ‘https://sourceforge.net/projects/my-gui/’
      ogre-paged: ‘https://code.google.com/p/ogre-paged/’
      caelum: ‘https://code.google.com/p/caelum/’
      socketw: ‘http://www.digitalfanatics.org/cal/socketw/’
      rigsofrods: ‘http://www.rigsofrods.com/’
      More info: ‘https://launchpad.net/~aapo-rantalainen/+archive/ubuntu/rigsofrods’
      Press [ENTER] to continue or ctrl-c to cancel adding it

      Executing: gpg –ignore-time-conflict –no-options –no-default-keyring –homedir /tmp/tmp.vYg9XKlsvX –no-auto-check-trustdb –trust-model always –keyring /etc/apt/trusted.gpg –primary-keyring /etc/apt/trusted.gpg –keyserver hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com:80 –recv-keys 1462175F
      gpg: requesting key 1462175F from hkp server keyserver.ubuntu.com
      gpg: key 1462175F: public key “Launchpad aaporantalainen” imported
      gpg: Total number processed: 1
      gpg: imported: 1 (RSA: 1)
      user@user-Latitude-E6520 /tmp $ sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get install rigsofrods
      …
      …
      …
      Reading package lists… Done
      Building dependency tree
      Reading state information… Done
      E: Unable to locate package rigsofrods
      user@user-Latitude-E6520 /tmp $ sudo apt-get install rigsofrodsReading package lists… Done
      Building dependency tree
      Reading state information… Done
      E: Unable to locate package rigsofrods
      user@user-Latitude-E6520 /tmp $

      I’m running:
      Linux Mint 17.2 Cinnamon 64-bit 2.6.11

    2. Paulo Silva April 2, 2016 at 8:10 pm

      Depois de atualizar instale usando
      $sudo apt-get install rigs of rods?

      deu essa mensagem
      E: Impossível encontrar o pacote rigsofrods.

    3. Paulo Silva April 2, 2016 at 8:13 pm

      eu achei esta forma de instalar:
      sudo add-apt-repository ppa:aapo-rantalainen/rigsofrods
      sudo apt-get update
      sudo apt-get install rigsofrods