SOLVED Problems with googleearth package

[Joep L. Blom]

David Curtis schreef:
> 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.
>>>>>
>>>>> Just follow the instructions:
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>>>>> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Medibuntu
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>>>>> 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
>>>
>> So its solved!.... ?
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> FYI, my problem is the opposite, 4.2 works well but 4.3 crashes on start 
> up. Go figure.
> 
> Dave
> 
Guys,
I just installed google-earth 4.3 using synaptic and I have exactly the 
same problem as Vinson.
System: AMD64:  2.6.24-19-generic #1 SMP Wed Aug 20 17:53:40 UTC 2008 
x86_64 GNU/Linux sufficient memory and diskspace.
I wonder if it is a 64-bit problem.
Joep