How To Install flightgear on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install flightgear on Debian 9.
What is flightgear
flightgear is:
FlightGear Flight Simulator (often shortened to FlightGear or FGFS) is a sophisticated free, completely open-source flight simulator framework, created by volunteers.
This package contains the runtime binaries.
There are three methods to install flightgear on Debian 9. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install flightgear Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install flightgear using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install flightgear
Install flightgear Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install flightgear using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install flightgear
Install flightgear Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install flightgear using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install flightgear
How To Uninstall flightgear on Debian 9
To uninstall only the flightgear package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove flightgear
Uninstall flightgear And Its Dependencies
To uninstall flightgear and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove flightgear
Remove flightgear Configurations and Data
To remove flightgear configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge flightgear
Remove flightgear configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove flightgear configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge flightgear
Dependencies
flightgear have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install flightgear package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.