Tips on installing Google Earth

[Doug]

On 10/25/2011 05:56 AM, Nigel Ridley wrote:
> 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
>
>
I don''t even find msttcorefonts listed in the repo, so they might be 
built in to the distro.  I really don't know.
I use OpenOffice on this machine, and the fonts look OK to me, on screen 
and on paper.

--doug

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