These are the installation notes for VDrift 2006-07-08 for Linux. Please read
them carefully, and if you need any more information consult the web site at
<http://vdrift.net/>

    * The binary compiled versions of VDrift (those in the .package files) were
      linked against OpenAL version 1.0 and FreeALUT. Previous version of OpenAL
      will not work (these have ALUT built in and do not use the freealut
      library). If you want to use old OpenAL, download the source tarball and
      compile with the command scons old_openal=1 (see source installation notes
      below for more info).
    * This version will not work properly if installed over an old version. You
      must completely remove any old version of VDrift before installing.
         1. First remove your ~/.vdrift directory and all files therein. If you
            want to keep them that's fine, but move them to another directory
            where VDrift won't find them.
         2. Now remove all the game data. In most cases this means deleting
            /usr/share/games/vdrift and all subdirectories. You could use
            scons -c install to do this if you installed using scons.
         3. Finally delete the game executable. scons -c install will get this
            for you if you installed that way. If not, make sure the file is not
            in /usr/games or /usr/games/bin or /usr/bin. A good way to check to
            see if you've successfully gotten rid of it, is to type whereis
            vdrift and make sure there are no programs found by whereis.
    * VDrift is now available as one of two different autopackages, or one
      source package and one of two data packages.
          o If you just want to play VDrift, get one of the autopackages. There
            are two different .package files, a small one and a large one.
                + vdrift-2006-07-08-minimal.x86.package (23 MB) has 3 cars and 2
                  tracks. This version is for people with slow connections or
                  who just want to try the game without downloading a huge file.
                + vdrift-2006-07-08-full.x86.package (140 MB) has 19 cars and 12
                  tracks, all the complete game data available in SVN.
                + To install a .package file, just run it. You may have to make
                  it executable first:
                  chmod +x vdrift-2006-07-08-full.x86.package
                  ./vdrift-2006-07-08-full.x86.package
          o If you have trouble installing the autopackages for whatever reason,
            try the source version. First, download the file
            vdrift-2006-07-08-src.tar.bz2 and do the following in order:
               1. Unpack it. tar jxvf vdrift-2006-07-08-src.tar.bz2
               2. Now choose a data package. The data tarballs are similar to
                  the autopackages, there is a minimal one and a full one, with
                  the same amounts of cars and tracks for each respectively.
               3. Change directories to the new one created when unpacking the
                  source tarball, and then unpack the data tarball you chose.
                  I'll use full here for the example:
                  cd vdrift-2006-07-08-src
                  tar jxvf vdrift-2006-07-08-data-full.tar.bz2
               4. Now it's time to compile the game. If you have SCons
                  installed, just run it: scons
                  If you don't have scons installed, copy it from the tools
                  directory and run it: cp tools/scons.py .; ./scons.py
               5. Now install, as root. This example uses sudo, if your distro
                  uses su do not use sudo. sudo scons install (substitute scons
                  for ./scons.py if that's what you're using)
               6. If that worked, VDrift is now installed in
                  /usr/share/games/vdrift/bin/vdrift. You can create a symlink
                  so that it's in your $PATH: 
                  sudo ln -s /usr/share/games/vdrift/bin/vdrift /usr/bin/vdrift
               7. Now you can run VDrift: vdrift
