Problems with googleearth package

[Brian McKee]

On Sat, Sep 6, 2008 at 10:14 AM, stan <stanb at panix.com> wrote:
> I am trying to get googleearth working on a machine that has the latest
> upgradees installed. I did an apt-get install of the googleearth package,
> and ran it. It complained about the version of googleearth it downloaded,
> but I was able to continue by using the --force option. During the build I
> got some messages indicating that I might need to do something with
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH, but I assumed thta this would get taken care of.


I'm confused - apt-get install would install it, not build it - and if
you are using the standard repositories you shouldn't have to --force
anything.  What was the complaint about the version?  Can you expand
on what you actually did here?

Brian