Ron Johnson wrote: > Benjamin Seidenberg wrote: > >> Joe Smith wrote: > >>> "Wesley J. Landaker" <wjl@icecavern.net> wrote in message > > >>>> Package: wnpp > >>>> Severity: wishlist > >>>> Owner: "Wesley J. Landaker" <wjl@localhost> > >>>> > >>>> * Package name : googleearth-package > >>>> Upstream Author : Wesley J. Landaker <wjl@icecavern.net> > >>>> * URL : (native package) > >>>> * License : GPL > >>>> Description : utility for automatically building a Google Earth > >>>> Debian package > >>>> > >>>> Google Earth is a great program now available for GNU/Linux, > >>>> but sadly is both non-free and non-distributable. For those > >>>> who wish to run it on > >>>> their Debian system, but wish it to be managed by the normal > >>>> Debian packaging system, this program will assist in > >>>> building a local Debian package in a similar fashion to > >>>> java-package. This package *itself* contains absolutely no > >>>> code from Google and is 100% free. (For the curious, this is > >>>> appropriately destined for contrib.) > [snip] > >> What's more, google earth can be installed without root > >> privileges and installs into a users home directory, thus the > >> systems administrator doesn't even need to install it, the user > >> can > > When I tried to install it as root (using "su -" from an xterm > window), it complained about not being able to find DISPLAY. Unlike > Sun Java & Macromedia Flash, it uses a GUI installer. > > Since many (most?) desktop users install apps from within su or > sudo'ed xterm windows, how will you work around that? > If you don't use -, DISPLAY should be preserved. Ditto for sudo. Benjamin (Postscript: I almost replied to your sig, but decided i wasn't going to go there.)
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