GE problems

[Gene Heskett]

On Thursday 01 November 2012 00:24:37 NoOp did opine:

> On 10/31/2012 05:21 PM, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > On Wednesday 31 October 2012 20:08:56 NoOp did opine:
> ...
> 
> >> > 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.
> 
> Really? How would have synaptic "pulled" that in? Do you have a ppa or
> similar defined in sources.list?
> 
> > 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.
> 
> Pay attention to Tom H's post - medibuntu's version is *not* the version
> that I pointed you to.
> 
> Here, I'll post it again:
> ====
> Download the .deb and install:
> 
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/GoogleEarth
>   http://www.google.com/earth/download/ge/agree.html
> ====
> 
> *Read* the link and follow the instructions. Please don't come back with
> "I believe that is probably what synaptic has pulled in twice now".

The version numbers matched, what other conclusion should I have reached?

> Either take the advise of those that have taken their time to try and
> assist you or not. But don't waste my (our) time by not even
> testing/trying/reading/ what has been suggested.
> 
> How hard can that be? If you've a problem with the .debs from the link
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/GoogleEarth /
> http://www.google.com/earth/download/ge/agree.html that were provided
> for you, then by all means come back & say "thanks, I've tried that, it
> didn't work and here are the result details". If you can't then I'd
> suggest the Ubuntu Forums instead...

I went thru that process error free except for the fussing about the 
LibreOffice menu stuffs, and it still runs from the menu, exactly as before 
it appears.  From the about box:

Google Earth
5.1.3533.1731
Build Date
Nov 11, 2009
Build Time
4:39:12 pm
Renderer
OpenGL
Operating System
Linux (2.6.32.0)
Video Driver
Mesa Project
Max Texture Size
4096x4096
Server
kh.google.com

Is this correct?

Cheers, Gene
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