{"id":7162,"date":"2017-09-21T15:53:05","date_gmt":"2017-09-21T15:53:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=7162"},"modified":"2017-09-21T15:53:05","modified_gmt":"2017-09-21T15:53:05","slug":"flight-simulator-flightgear-2017-3-released-ubuntu-ppa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2017\/09\/flight-simulator-flightgear-2017-3-released-ubuntu-ppa\/","title":{"rendered":"Flight Simulator FlightGear 2017.3 Released [Ubuntu PPA]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/flightgear-icon.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"245\" height=\"250\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6577\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The FlightGear flight simulator has reached the 2017.3 release earlier today with a huge list of changes.<\/p>\n<p>Though it&#8217;s not official announced at the moment, FlightGear 2017.3 features following changes according to the changelog:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Aircraft: detailed Carrier USS Harry Truman and escort group, with many animated elements, using experimental wave motion<\/li>\n<li>Multiple flightplans fixed and is now possible to be controlled from Nasal.<\/li>\n<li>Starting on carriers fixed<\/li>\n<li>Enabling of display lists for random vegetation provides a massive performance boost for random vegetation.\n<\/li>\n<li>More than 1000 screenshots now allowed<\/li>\n<li>Support for AI wake turbulence added. <\/li>\n<li>new Mediterranean tree textures, new desert shrub textures<\/li>\n<li>See more in the <a href=\"https:\/\/sourceforge.net\/projects\/flightgear\/files\/release-2017.3\/\" target=\"_blank\">changelog<\/a>.\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/flightgear-flight-simulator.jpg\" alt=\"flightgear flight simulator 2.12 ubuntu\" width=\"580\" height=\"326\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2475\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/flightgear-flight-simulator.jpg 580w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/flightgear-flight-simulator-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/p>\n<h4>How to Install FlightGear in Ubuntu:<\/h4>\n<p>The official website refers to <a href=\"https:\/\/launchpad.net\/~saiarcot895\/+archive\/ubuntu\/flightgear\" target=\"_blank\">the PPA repository<\/a>, which contains FlightGear packages for Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 17.04, <i>though the 2017.3 release is not made into PPA at the moment of writing.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>1. Add the PPA by opening terminal, either via Ctrl+Alt+T or by searching it from app launcher, and running command:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo add-apt-repository ppa:saiarcot895\/flightgear<\/pre>\n<p><i>Input your password (no visual feedback while typing) when it prompts and hit Enter.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/flightgear-ppa-600x81.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"81\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-7163\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/flightgear-ppa-600x81.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/flightgear-ppa-450x61.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/flightgear-ppa.jpg 740w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>2. Then you can upgrade FlightGear via Software Updater once it&#8217;s published in the PPA repository.<\/p>\n<p>Or install it for the first time via commands:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:None;\">sudo apt-get update\r\n\r\nsudo apt-get install flightgear<\/pre>\n<p><b>Uninstall:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>To uninstall FlightGear, simply run following command in terminal:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:None;\">sudo apt-get remove --autoremove flightgear<\/pre>\n<p>And remove the PPA by launching &#8220;Software &#038; Updates&#8221; utility and navigating to Other Software tab.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The FlightGear flight simulator has reached the 2017.3 release earlier today with a huge list of changes. Though it&#8217;s not official announced at the moment, FlightGear 2017.3 features following changes according to the changelog: Aircraft: detailed Carrier USS Harry Truman and escort group, with many animated elements, using experimental wave motion Multiple flightplans fixed and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,6],"tags":[873,872],"class_list":["post-7162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howtos","category-news","tag-flight-simulator","tag-flightgear"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}