Problems with googleearth package

[Jason Wilson]

On Sun, 7 Sep 2008, David Curtis wrote:

> Jason Wilson wrote:
>>
>> On Sat, 6 Sep 2008, 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?
>>> --
>>
>> Actually, if you're just looking to install GoogleEarth on your Linux
>> machine, download GoogleEarthLinux.bin and go to your shell and type: sh
>> GoogleEarthLinux.bin and follow the directions. It will be installed.
>>
>
> Why do this when G.E. is available as a package from the Medibuntu repo?

First of all, I didn't know it was available in the repositories. Second 
of all, I just happened to be on google.com and thought I'd download 
Google Earth for Linux. If I was _planning_ ahead of time, I'd check the 
repos.

Jason