SOLVED Problems with googleearth package

[David Curtis]

Vinson Carrethers wrote:
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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.
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>>>> Just follow the instructions:
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>>>> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Medibuntu
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>>>> HTH
>>>>
>>>> Dave
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>>> 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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FYI, my problem is the opposite, 4.2 works well but 4.3 crashes on start 
up. Go figure.

Dave