How to install Trigger Rally on Debian 8.3

To install Trigger Rally on Debian 8.3

Trigger Rally is an open source single player 3D racing game for Linux and Windows. It is so simple to install Trigger Rally and this article covers the installation process of Trigger Rally on Debian 8.3

Installing Trigger Rally

Make sure you add the repo for Trigger Rally in your system, before you begin with the installation process. Make use of the following command to open the sources.list file on which the repo is to be added.

root@linuxhelp:~# nano /etc/apt/sources.list

Once the file is open, add the following lines at end of the file.

deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ stable main contrib non-free
deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian jessie main

After adding the line, then save and exit from the file

Once it is done update the apt sources-list by invoking the following command.

root@linuxhelp:~# apt-get update
Get:1 http://ftp.debian.org jessie-updates InRelease [145 kB]
Ign http://ftp.de.debian.org jessie InRelease           
Get:2 http://ftp.de.debian.org jessie Release.gpg [2,373 B]
Get:3 http://ftp.de.debian.org jessie Release [148 kB]                  
Ign http://ftp.debian.org stable InRelease                                       
Get:4 http://ftp.debian.org jessie-updates/main Sources [15.5 kB]
Get:5 http://ftp.debian.org jessie-updates/contrib Sources [32 B]         
Get:6 http://ftp.de.debian.org jessie/main amd64 Packages [6,790 kB]
Get:7 http://ftp.debian.org jessie-updates/main amd64 Packages/DiffIndex [7,900 B]
Get:8 http://ftp.debian.org jessie-updates/contrib amd64 Packages [32 B]
Get:9 http://ftp.debian.org jessie-updates/contrib Translation-en [14 B]
Get:10 http://ftp.debian.org jessie-updates/main Translation-en/DiffIndex [2,704 B]   
Get:11 http://ftp.debian.org stable Release.gpg [2,373 B]                  
Get:12 http://ftp.debian.org jessie-updates/main amd64 2017-03-14-2025.02.pdiff [526 B]
Get:13 http://ftp.debian.org jessie-updates/main amd64 2017-04-15-2027.16.pdiff [528 B]
Get:14 http://ftp.debian.org jessie-updates/main amd64 2017-04-15-2027.16.pdiff [528 B]
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Fetched 23.5 MB in 1min 43s (226 kB/s)                                                      
Reading package lists... Done
root@linuxhelp:~#

Now is the time to install the Trigger Rally package. Run the following command to install it.

root@linuxhelp:~# apt-get install trigger-rally
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  libalut0 libphysfs1 libsdl-image1.2 libtinyxml2.6.2 trigger-rally-data
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  libalut0 libphysfs1 libsdl-image1.2 libtinyxml2.6.2 trigger-rally trigger-rally-data
0 upgraded, 6 newly installed, 0 to remove and 292 not upgraded.
Need to get 58.8 MB of archives.
After this operation, 70.7 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
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Setting up trigger-rally (0.6.1-0.1) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.19-18+deb8u2) ...

Once the package is installed, use your Activities search bar to find and launch the app.

Wasn' t that a simple installation process? Playing Trigger Rally is also very simple. It contains 3D rally simulation with a great physics engine for drifting, over 140 maps and different terrain materials including dirt, asphalt, sand, ice etc.Also it lets you set weather conditions and light and fog, a feature which sets it apart from similar rallying games.