On Saturday 03 October 2015 22:30:28 rlhar...@oplink.net wrote: > On Sat, October 3, 2015 3:56 pm, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > I also thought that the package you were trying to install was > > called "googleearth". It says so in the subject line. Ah! A search > > suggests that you did actually mean googleearth not gnome-earth. > > As best as I can put together the pieces, some time ago Google created a > Debian package of Google Earth (gnome-earth-stable_current_i386.deb); the > package is available for download from http://www.google.com/earth/. But > until recently, Debian users have experienced difficulty installing the > package and some have found the program problematic, once installed.
The Google site, at the place referenced by your URL, has just offered to let me download (copied and pasted to avoid typos) google-earth-stable_current_amd64.deb No mention of Gnome. Lisi > > So, someone in the realm of Debian put together a package called > "googleearth-package", the function of which is to (1) download from the > Google web site the latest stable revision of Google Earth, (2) from it > build a new Debian package, and (3) install the new Debian package. That > appears to have been a good solution. > > However, pretty much coincident with the advent of Jessie, the > "gnome-earth-stable_current_i386.deb" package provided by Google appears > to install and run properly, at least when installed with the command > "gdebi gnome-earth-stable_current_i386.deb". > > So, at the present time, it appears that the need for > "googleearth-package" has passed -- at least with respect to Jessie (and > in my case, with the combination of Xfce on an i386 system). Direct > installation with gdebi is simpler and faster. > > P.S. I am posting this to the list simply because the knowledge would have > saved me a number of hours of search and trial and error. > > Russ
