GE problems

Gene Heskett gheskett at wdtv.com
Thu Nov 1 02:20:56 UTC 2012


On Wednesday 31 October 2012 22:11:56 Tom H did opine:

> 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
Ok, puzzle piece 2:

It runs just fine from the command line, without a location argument.  Run 
from the menu after I fix the link in properties from the system->prefs-
>main menu which has a placeholder for an argument, a '%f', it starts to 
light up but goes away when I click on the close tip button.  Without an 
argument, or the argument placeholder in the menu link, it works.  That 
however is somewhat resembling of the teats on a boar hog.  Would this be a 
bug?  But at least it runs which is more than it was doing.  Thanks.

Cheers, Gene
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