{"id":979,"date":"2013-07-19T08:33:25","date_gmt":"2013-07-19T08:33:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=979"},"modified":"2025-03-12T06:40:39","modified_gmt":"2025-03-12T06:40:39","slug":"install-vdrift-ubuntu-linux-mint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2013\/07\/install-vdrift-ubuntu-linux-mint\/","title":{"rendered":"Install VDrift Racing Simulator in Ubuntu 24.04 | 22.04 | 20.04"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>VDrift is an open source driving simulation made with drift racing in mind. It was available for Ubuntu and Linux Mint users from PlayDeb repository.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Vdrift.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-981\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Vdrift.jpg\" alt=\"Vdrift\" width=\"500\" height=\"323\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Vdrift.jpg 500w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Vdrift-300x193.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For recent Ubuntu releases, there&#8217;s a popular <a href=\"https:\/\/launchpad.net\/~xtradeb\/+archive\/ubuntu\/play\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">xtradeb games PPA<\/a> contains the game package for Ubuntu 20.04, Ubuntu 22.04, Ubuntu 24.04, and Linux Mint 21\/22. Not only for amd64 (Intel\/AMD CPUs), it also support arm64\/armhf (e.g., raspberry pi) platforms.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Objectives:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Install VDrift on Ubuntu and Linux Mint<\/li>\n<li>Enjoy!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To get started, first press <code>Ctrl+Alt+T<\/code> on keyboard to open up a terminal window. Then run command below to add the PPA:<\/p>\n<pre>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:xtradeb\/play<\/pre>\n<p>It will automatically refresh cache after adding PPA in Ubuntu, though Linux Mint user needs to do it manually by running command:<\/p>\n<pre>sudo apt update<\/pre>\n<p>Finally, install the game package by running command:<\/p>\n<pre>sudo apt install vdrift<\/pre>\n<p><b>(Optional)<\/b> To uninstall the car racing game, use command:<\/p>\n<pre>sudo apt remove --autoremove vdrift vdrift-data<\/pre>\n<p>Then, use command below to remove the PPA repository:<\/p>\n<pre>sudo add-apt-repository --remove ppa:xtradeb\/play<\/pre>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VDrift is an open source driving simulation made with drift racing in mind. It was available for Ubuntu and Linux Mint users from PlayDeb repository. For recent Ubuntu releases, there&#8217;s a popular xtradeb games PPA contains the game package for Ubuntu 20.04, Ubuntu 22.04, Ubuntu 24.04, and Linux Mint 21\/22. Not only for amd64 (Intel\/AMD [&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],"tags":[145],"class_list":["post-979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howtos","tag-install-vdrift-from-playdeb-repository"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979","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=979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}