Problems with googleearth package

David Curtis dcurtis at uniserve.com
Sun Sep 7 18:23:14 UTC 2008


Dotan Cohen wrote:
> 2008/9/7 David Curtis <dcurtis at uniserve.com>:
>> Why do this when G.E. is available as a package from the Medibuntu repo?
>>
> 
> Get the latest version / cut out the middleman / comply with Google's
> ToS good enough reasons?
> 
> For that matter, why install another repo when the software is easy to
> acquire and install directly from Google?
> 
I understand 'Get the latest version', if there happens to be a newer 
one not available from Medibuntu.

The middle man here is an amazingly elegant software management system. 
I'm sure you can uninstall by hand fairly easily if your computer 
literate, but there are people out there who will need the ease of 
Synaptic's gui.

One has to agree with Google's EULA before the package gets installed. 
How would installing G.E. from the repo break Google's ToS?

Even though I prefer the F/OSS from Universe et al., Medibuntu has a few 
little gems that pesonally I can't live without.

Dave





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