[Novalug] Google Earth 5 install problems

cruiserad@comcast.net cruiserad@comcast.net
Sat Apr 25 16:05:34 EDT 2009


thnaks. the command line install worked, but the desktop crashes and reboots every time i try to launch the application. 

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From: Kevin Cole 

To: cruiserad@comcast.net

Cc: novalug@calypso.tux.org

Sent: Sat, 25 Apr 2009 15:09:46 +0000 (UTC)

Subject: Re: [Novalug] Google Earth 5 install problems





On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 10:52,  <cruiserad@comcast.net> wrote:


1. downoaded google linux.bin from google earth website to desktop. a click on the file gets the error message Couldn't display "/home/brian/Desktop/GoogleEarthLinux.bin". there is no application installed for this file type.

Sounds like the executable bit isn't set.  From a terminal shell, type:cd ~/Desktopchmod u+x GoogleEarthLinux.bin./GoogleEarthLinux.bin

Or from the GUI, probably right click on the icon and look for something to change the permissions.  Change it. Click on it.

 2. opened synaptic pagage manager, did not recognize the file on the desktop.It is not a package.  It's an installer. Loosely speaking, think of Synaptic (and apt-get, and dpkg, and adept, and aptitude, and, and, and...) as working with zip files with delusions of grandeur. ;-)  Synaptic et al look at a file with the extension .deb, and recognize it as an archive of files plus instructions on where those files go, version information to be added to a database, etc.  There are other packaging systems for other distros (e.g. RPM for RedHat, Fedora, SuSE and others, portage for Gentoo).  The archives they use also have both the files, and version info that goes into a database on your system.

By contrast, the .bin file will install, but won't integrate with your system's packaging / version tracking system.  It won't show up in Synaptic, and you'll be responsible for periodically checking manually to see if there's been an upgrade to the application, removing the old application, downloading the new, setting the permission, and installing again.


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