buying then flying!

After getting bored of the demo's time limit I decided to take the plunge and buy the simulator, I went for the steam version just because of ease of updating and "it just works", instant access to the simulator once downloaded and part of the steam community


to get steam working* on Debian Jessie do the following on amd64 machine

1. Add a "non-free" component to /etc/apt/sources.list, for example:

   # Debian Jessie (testing)
   deb http://http.debian.net/debian/ jessie main contrib non-free

2. Enable Multi-Arch and update the list of available packages:

   # dpkg --add-architecture i386
   # aptitude update

3. Install the steam package:

   # aptitude install steam

4. Install 32-bit OpenGL libraries:
   Nvidia graphics hardware:

   # aptitude install libgl1-nvidia-glx:i386

   ATI/AMD graphics hardware:

   # aptitude install libgl1-fglrx-glx:i386

X-Plane can be purchased from www.x-plane.com , www.x-plane.org or steam**
if you buy from steam you get it instantly, while x-plane.org will
support the x-plane.org site and community


* X-Plane doesn't work with Intel graphics hardware so Nvidia or ATi is required.

**also worth noting that there is a guy on ebay selling steam version of x-plane10 for half price ;)