Google Earth

[Karl Larsen]

David Fox wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 9:06 AM, Karl Larsen <k5di at zianet.com> wrote:
>
>   
>>    My Ubuntu is plain 32 bit and it works great. I just have trouble
>> with added software.
>>     
>
> I see. I had trouble as well getting googleearth installed correctly,
> but I found that I had best success installing the package from
> medibuntu rather than directly from google. I also noted (apart from
> the need for the 32-bit dns library) that installing googleearth may
> result in incorrect permissions on googleearth's files - such that at
> least initially I had to run googleearth as root in order to get it to
> connect and display properly. After fixing that second issue, it's
> been running fine.
>
>   
>> Karl
>>     
>
>   
    Yes the starter program on Desktop came out owned by root. It had a 
padlock showing. I thought for some time how to fix that and then it hit 
me! In a terminal I wrote $ sudo chown karl 
/home/karl/Desktop/Googleearth and bam! It changed into a round Earth 
looking thing. Alas it doesn't work :-)


Karl


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