Problems with googleearth package

[Vinson Carrethers]

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stan wrote:
> 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?
Stan, It wouldn't hurt to know what version Ubuntu and Google Earth you are
dealing with.
I used synaptic in 8.04 to download and install Google Earth 4.2 and it
functions well.
Is there some reason you felt the need to be at the command line level?
Cheers,
vince

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