SOLVED Problems with googleearth package

[Vinson Carrethers]

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stan wrote:
> 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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