Problems with googleearth package

[stan]

On Sat, Sep 06, 2008 at 01:06:39PM -0600, Vinson Carrethers wrote:
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> David Curtis wrote:
> > 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
> > 
> Stan,  I need to know more about your equipment, and the other requests for
> information I made.  I just went to my T-30 Thinkpad and installed 4.2, and then
> 4.3 through synaptic and then Googles program through their installer.  All of
> them cause the Thinkpad to logout right after the GoogleEarth start screen.  So
> in my area, different machines give different results.  I am troubleshooting my
> thinkpad while I wait for your information.  No info from you leaves no answers.

I got it working following the directions on
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Medibuntu as sugested above. The only
trick wwas that there were 2 versions of googleearth offered in that
reposiistory, and the default googlearth installed the 4.2 version which
did not work well for me, but install the 4.3 version seems to have gotten
it workingquite well. This is on a 8.04 system with the latest fixes.

HTH

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