installing vdrift

[theaffman]

Hi I'm really enjoying kubuntu.

But I would like to install vdrift.

I don't know how to install anything except throught apt-get.

how would I install vdrift?

[askrieger]

Re: installing vdrift

If you go to the vdrift website on Sourceforge, you will find that there is a deb package for Ubuntu Breezy(?) of the Feb 06 release. If you have the Ubuntu-Desktop package installed (as well as Kubuntu), you could try to install this by downloading the two Ubuntu deb files and the platform-independent data from Sourceforge and then running

dpkg --install vdrift_2006-02-21-1ubuntu1_i386.deb
dpkg --install vdrift-data_2006-02-21-1ubuntu1_i386.deb

This might not work with Dapper Ubuntu because of library dependencies and won't work with Kubuntu Breezy unless you've installed the gtk2 libraries. If the debs don't work, and/or you want the latest and greatest, you will have to install the new version from source. This is not as formidable as it sounds, but it is not trivial. People here will be glad to help if you decide to go that way.