Problems with googleearth package

[stan]

On Sat, Sep 06, 2008 at 10:38:42AM -0400, Brian McKee wrote:
> 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?
> 
This is the googleearth package builder. It downloads, and builds a Debian
package for googleearth. Is there a better way to do this?
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