Craig Mayhew’s Blog

If you want to get the STABLE RELEASE of the ubuntu second life viewer, eg the same as the lindens official release then add the following lines to your /etc/apt/sources.list (you will need to do this as root e.g. sudo vim /etc/apt/sources.list):

# Second Life (Open Metaverse viewer)
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/openmetaverse/ubuntu hardy main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/openmetaverse/ubuntu hardy main

Note: If you are not running hardy heron but instead are running a later version of ubuntu then you can change the “hardy” bit to e.g. “intrepid” or “jaunty” and it should work just fine.

Update lists:

sudo apt-get update

Install Second Life:

sudo apt-get install omvviewer

You should then find in the Applications menu, under games is the “Open Metaverse viewer” aka second life!