How to install a flight simulator on the Linux Acer Aspire One
Everyone likes a good flight simulator but they seem to be few and far between.
I’ve found one called Flight Gear so I thought I would give it a try.
The home page for the software is http://www.flightgear.org/
To install it I went to this site : ftp://mirrors.ibiblio.org/pub/mirrors/flightgear/ftp/Fedora
You need to download and install the following files in this order:
openal-20050209-0.FC2.i386.rpm
FlightGear-0.9.10-0.FC.i386.rpm
How well does it work?
Well it looks very nice but my Acer Aspire One isn’t quite up to the job of doing it justice, and it runs very slowly.
Newer models my be able to cope better.
However there is an other option.
I’ve found a different flight sim called YSFlight and whilst the graphics aren’t as detailed as those found in Flight Gear the speed is much better and the AAO’s touch pad works quite well for control.
YSFLight is a free Download from http://homepage3.nifty.com/ysflight/aircraftsoft/aircraftsofte.html
There is now need to install it.
Simply extract the archive into a directory ( I keep it in my downloads directory) and run the YSFflight executable file with File Manager.
Instructions are included in an HTML file in the download.
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