Tips on installing Google Earth

[Nigel Ridley]

On 10/25/2011 06:47 AM, Doug wrote:
> On 10/25/2011 12:37 AM, Girard Henri wrote:
>> Le 25/10/2011 00:07, David Fletcher a écrit :
>>> I think this is what I used to do it
>>> sudo aptitude install googleearth-package
>>> some time ago on Ubuntu. It's been working trouble free ever since.
>>>
>>> I seem to remember it downloading source from somewhere then building it
>>> for my machine, but like I said it's a while ago now.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> Apparently it's still the best way to do it :)
>>
> I'm wondering why you have had problems. I believe Kubuntu is a KDE distro. I am using a KDE
> distro: PCLinuxOS,
> and I just installed Google Earth from the repo with no problem at all. It works right off the
> bat. Maybe there's
> something defective in Kubuntu?
>
> --doug
>

Did you have the msttcorefonts package installed before installing Google Earth?

Nigel