GE problems

[Gene Heskett]

On Thursday 01 November 2012 11:42:51 Tom H did opine:

> On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 10:20 PM, Gene Heskett <gheskett at wdtv.com> wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> You're welcome but this has nothing to do with the googleearth-package
> with which you were having installation problems and which would've
> installed a more recent version of the app:
> 
> $ \sh GoogleEarthLinux.bin --info
> Identification: Google Earth for GNU/Linux 6.0.3.2197
> Target directory: GoogleEarthLinuxPlus-6.0.3.2197-installer
> Uncompressed size: 99752 KB
> Compression: bzip2
> Date of packaging: Tue May 17 00:42:06 PDT 2011
> Built with Makeself version 2.1.5 on linux-gnu
> Build command was: ./data/linux/makeself/makeself.sh \
>     "--bzip2" \
>     "./GoogleEarthLinuxPlus-6.0.3.2197-installer" \
>     "GoogleEarthLinuxPlus-6.0.3.2197-1.run" \
>     "Google Earth for GNU/Linux 6.0.3.2197" \
>     "./setup.sh"
> Script run after extraction:
>      ./setup.sh
> GoogleEarthLinuxPlus-6.0.3.2197-installer will be removed after
> extraction $

Which is obviously 2 or so years newer than what I got following the link 
suggested yesterday.  Call me puzzled to say the least.  Perhaps I need to 
adjust the exec line for that in the properties of the menu because I'm 
running an older version that may be co-installed?  The one in my launching 
menu now is:
/usr/bin/googleearth
Without the f% argument that was there originally.  It will not run beyond 
the hint screen closing if it is there.

If someone could compare that line, with theirs on 10-04 LTS system?

Thanks.

Cheers, Gene
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