Problems with googleearth package

[David Curtis]

stan wrote:
> 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?
> 
> synaptic shows both google earth, and the google earth package builder
> installed.
> 
> Am I missing somehting here? Is there some way to install google earth that
> does not involve the package builder package?
> 

Sounds like you don't have the medibuntu repo in your sources.

Just follow the instructions:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Medibuntu

HTH

Dave