[ubuntu-uk] Google Earth .....

[J Fernyhough]

On 20 February 2011 17:04, Barry Drake <bdrake at crosswire.org> wrote:
> Hi there ....  My sister asked me to pop over there this morning because
> she really wanted to use Google Earth.  It is not difficult to make it
> work, but I had to get and install stuff by the commandline.  Not
> something I could have talked her through over the phone.  I wonder if
> Google Earth has been asked to offer Deb packages?  Is there a history
> here? If so, can someone fill me in please?  I notice in the Ubuntu
> repository there is a 'Google Earth Package maker'.  That struck me as
> very odd.  Why not just a simple shell script that does what I had to
> do?  Or am I missing something?


https://help.ubuntu.com/community/GoogleEarth