Failed attepts at installing google earth 6, debian Squeeze\Sid
Hello all,
Tried using SMXI to install google earth many times. Reports it installed but there is no googleearth-bin installed on my system. Used "find / -iname 'googleearth-bin" as root from / with no results. upon executing googleearth it reports "/usr/lib/googleearth/googleearth-bin not found" I did a search to find just in case it put it somewhere else. (When I installed it in Lenny it puts it in a direcory called /opt/google-earth/googleearth.bin). I see a google earth package in the debian repository specified for Sid that will allow one to generate a custom .deb file to install Google earth. I downloaded it but am unshure how to use it. It shows there are other files nessisary for the instalation as well in the repository. The readme file assumes I know what I am doing and I am afraid of messing something up. Would someone please give me code to install in this manner if one thinks this is best. I can susspect thet one or more other nessisary files are possibly not on my system. Is there some code to install and also install the dependent files as well? I generaly use Synaptic or SMXI to install software as in the event something goes wrong, brakes or just does nort work I can uninstall completley wthout having problems. still new to Debian and computers in general. Generic desktop intel P4 with Geforce 7100 GS with Nvidia chip. Thanks, Jon |
Using Lenny.
GoogleEarthLinux.bin is the name of the installation file. googleearth is the name of the executable, which installs by default to /opt/google-earth. There is a googleearth-bin in /opt/google-earth on my system, but invoking it does not start the program; in fact, it gives me a "command not found," even though its permissions are -rwxr-xr-x. Invoking googleearth starts the program. |
I used lousy grammer, I did in fact execute Google Earth by typing "googleearth" in terminal after instalation, it then gives error "/usr/lib/googleearth/googleearth-bin not found". I have no problems at all installing and running Google Earth on Lenny, just Squeeze/Sid. Any suggestions welcome , Jon
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I may be off topic but
according to my console history,
this is what I've done to my computer running Debian Squeeze 64bit. Quote:
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Don't forget you will also need the ia32-libs package as well. |
I am using 32 bit, any suggested changes? Thanks, Jon
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This is decidedly odd.
I do not have a /usr/lib/googleearth/ on my Debian box, but I do have one on my Ubuntu box. Of course, I'm running Lenny, not Squeeze. That's probably the difference. I had problems getting Google Earth to run on Ubuntu, but they turned out to be permissions problems. |
Just trying to get my source.list correct. I used SMXI to upgrade system a while back. Nothing was mentioned in the process that it would upgrade to sid. When I do a "cat /etc/debian_version" I get reported "squeeze/sid". What am I running now, Squeeze or Sid? and what should my source.list look like? I can not get a listing in Synaptic for googleearth with current source.list. After upgrade there was changes in my source.list that reflect sid as well as squeeze. I tried adding Sid repository that has the googleearth package but it will not show up in Synaptic. Here is what my source.list looks like, don't mind the # out stuff. This got to be some of my problem.
# # # deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux squeeze-di-beta1 _Squeeze_ - Official Beta i386 DVD Binary-1 20101027-01:46]/ squeeze contrib main # #3deb http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates main contrib # # deb-src http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates main contrib # # Liquorix sources added by smxi deb http://liquorix.net/debian/ sid main # # aptosid sources added by smxi deb http://aptosid.com/debian/ sid main fix.main deb-src http://aptosid.com/debian/ sid main fix.main # # # ########################### ## Debian Testing/Squeeze ## ########################### # Testing # deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ testing main contrib non-free # # deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ squeeze/updates contrib # deb-src http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ testing main contrib non-free #Testing Security http://secure-testing-master.debian.net/ # deb-src http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ squeeze/updates non-free #Testing Proposed Updates deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ testing-proposed-updates main contrib non-free deb-src http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ testing-proposed-updates main contrib non-free # # Wine Add this line for Squeeze: # deb http://www.lamaresh.net/apt squeeze main # # deb http://deb.playonlinux.com/ squeeze main # # # Added to get Google Earth, 12-21-10 hopefully # deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ sid main contrib Some answers and direction greatly appriciated as I am realy confused about now. Thanks, Jon |
Just trying to get my source.list correct. I used SMXI to upgrade system a while back. Nothing was mentioned in the process that it would upgrade to sid. When I do a "cat /etc/debian_version" I get reported "squeeze/sid". What am I running now, Squeeze or Sid? and what should my source.list look like? I can not get a listing in Synaptic for googleearth with current source.list. After upgrade there was changes in my source.list that reflect sid as well as squeeze. I tried adding Sid repository that has the googleearth package but it will not show up in Synaptic. Here is what my source.list looks like, don't mind the # out stuff. This got to be some of my problem.
# # # deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux squeeze-di-beta1 _Squeeze_ - Official Beta i386 DVD Binary-1 20101027-01:46]/ squeeze contrib main # #3deb http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates main contrib # # deb-src http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates main contrib # # Liquorix sources added by smxi deb http://liquorix.net/debian/ sid main # # aptosid sources added by smxi deb http://aptosid.com/debian/ sid main fix.main deb-src http://aptosid.com/debian/ sid main fix.main # # # ########################### ## Debian Testing/Squeeze ## ########################### # Testing # deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ testing main contrib non-free # # deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ squeeze/updates contrib # deb-src http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ testing main contrib non-free #Testing Security http://secure-testing-master.debian.net/ # deb-src http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ squeeze/updates non-free #Testing Proposed Updates deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ testing-proposed-updates main contrib non-free deb-src http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ testing-proposed-updates main contrib non-free # # Wine Add this line for Squeeze: # deb http://www.lamaresh.net/apt squeeze main # # deb http://deb.playonlinux.com/ squeeze main # # # Added to get Google Earth, 12-21-10 hopefully # deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ sid main contrib Some answers and direction greatly appriciated as I am realy confused about now. Thanks, Jon |
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Did you do any updates when you had the entry for Sid enabled?. Your sources.list is a bit of a mess,so I'm not surprised you are confused. Backup your current file and we will start with a more simple version: Code:
deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ squeeze main non-free contrib Have you installed lsb-core as suggested?. |
I have not done any type of update since the addition and removal of "# deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ sid main contrib" in my sources.list. I have previously installed lsb-core and just confermed it is still installed.
Shall I try installing Google Earth again and what procedure shoud I try, SMXI or aptitude? Syanptic does not show a package although it did some time ago show a package that would allow to build a custom .deb package that I could install somehow. Last time I used SMXI it had a note that googleearth was only working on Sid and not Squeeze. Probobly part of my problem. Upgrading to sid probobly not for me as I am a beginner, unless one feels it is ok. I keep nothing to critical onthis box. |
I downloaded the binary from http://www.google.com/earth/index.html and ran it from a terminal as root. That's always worked for me.
Last time I looked, it wasn't in the repos because it's not open. |
I seem to have struck out again, here is
root@DebSid:/home/jon/Downloads# dpkg -i google-earth-stable_current_i386.deb Selecting previously deselected package google-earth-stable. (Reading database ... 152652 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking google-earth-stable (from google-earth-stable_current_i386.deb) ... Setting up google-earth-stable (6.0.1.2032-r0) ... Processing triggers for man-db ... Processing triggers for menu ... Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils ... Processing triggers for gnome-menus ... root@DebSid:/home/jon/Downloads# exit exit jon@DebSid:~$ googleearth bash: googleearth: command not found jon@DebSid:~$ googleearth bash: googleearth: command not found jon@DebSid:~$ Any suggestions what I am doing wrong? Jon |
OMG, My Debian lenny instalation of GE used "googleearth" to start and this is what I have been trying. This one in Squeeze uses "google-earth" to start. Everthing so far is working well. It seems the simple things keep messing me up. Sorry for the inconvienence and thanks for all who put up with my stupidity. Jon
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I have one primary principle when it comes to computers: All questions are easy if you already know the answer.
Why would Squeeze be different? (I know, that's rhetorical question.) Here's what I'm running: Quote:
It doesn't make sense that the executable would be different because of the OS unless the sources are different. |
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