On Saturday 03 October 2015 23:07:13 rlhar...@oplink.net wrote: > On Sat, October 3, 2015 4:45 pm, John Hasler wrote: > > rlharris writes: > >> 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. > > > > What about those whose computers are Gnome free? > > All I know is that when I installed Jessie, I specified only the Xcfe > desktop, and I did not specify Gnome. (Months ago I tried to install both > Gnome and Xfce on a system, and something went awry.) > > The installer may have installed some Gnome packages, but that does not > bother me, so long as I have the Xfce desktop. > > And thinking of it now, I did subsequently install gnome-disk-utility, > which I use almost daily. > > If a Gnome package -- such as gdebi or gnome-disk-utility runs properly > apart from the Gnome desktop, should I be concerned?
You are clearly welcome to use Gnome. You run a Gnome compatible desktop. But not everyone does. And Google doesn't mention Gnome, in spite of your insistance that it does. Anyhow, John: we have established that although Russ used gdebi GNOME GUI, versions of gdebi exist for the rest of us. There are gdebi-core (CLI) and gdebi KDE GUI. And Gnome doesn't come into Google Earth (though Gnome may do a package for it, of course). Lisi Lisi
