GE problems

[Tom H]

On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 8:21 PM, Gene Heskett <gheskett at wdtv.com> wrote:
> On Wednesday 31 October 2012 20:08:56 NoOp did opine:
>> On 10/31/2012 02:34 AM, Gene Heskett wrote:
>>>
>>> So what is the approved & recommended way to proceed?
>>
>> Download the .deb and install:
>>
>> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/GoogleEarth
>> http://www.google.com/earth/download/ge/agree.html
>
> I believe that is probably what synaptic has pulled in twice now.
>
> gene at coyote:~/linuxcnc/configs/sim/axis$ ls -l /var/cache/apt/archives |grep googleearth
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 17689184 2010-01-23 13:09 googleearth_5.1.3533.1731-0medibuntu1_i386.deb
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root    10738 2010-02-03 02:04 googleearth-package_0.5.7_all.deb
>
> Which supposedly is installed.

googleearth_5.1.3533.1731-0medibuntu1_i386.deb is the medibuntu
package (see [1]), which has nothing to do with script that you're
running as part of googleearth-package.

1. http://packages.medibuntu.org/lucid/googleearth.html