1 Installing FlightGear on Linux
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6 Several major Linux distributions offer FlightGear binary packages in their
7 official repositories; this is usually the quickest and easiest way to
8 install FlightGear, but may not be the latest version.
10 There are also a number of unofficial repositories offering more frequently
11 updated binary packages (some including development versions, which have
12 the very latest features but are also more likely to have major bugs);
13 see http://www.flightgear.org/download/main-program/ for details.
17 See the general instructions (README.cmake in the directory above this).
18 You will need the -dev version of all the prerequisites,
19 e.g. libopenscenegraph-dev, libplib-dev.
23 If you experience unusably low frame rates (~1/sec), this may mean that your
24 graphics drivers do not support 3D acceleration, or that it is not enabled.
25 To check for this problem run: