Problems with googleearth package

[stan]

On Sat, Sep 06, 2008 at 09:43:41AM -0600, Vinson Carrethers wrote:
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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
> 

uname -a reports:

Linux boo-boo 2.6.24-19-generic #1 SMP Wed Aug 20 22:56:21 UTC 2008 i686
GNU/Linux

OAnd here is the package that it built:

googleearth_4.3.7284.3916+0.5.2-1_i386.deb

I am wondering if It is possible to istall google earth somehow other than
this package. apt-cache search does not seeem to indicate that this is
possible.

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