Re: Google repositories
On 20100412_153139, Christopher Judd wrote:
> On Monday 12 April 2010 15:13:06 Camaleón wrote:
> > On Mon, 12 Apr 2010 13:34:30 -0400, Christopher Judd wrote:
> > > I was trying to install Google-earth, but was not successful. Have
> > > the
> > > Google repositories moved, or been discontinued?
> >
> > IIRC, I installed GoogleEarth on 64-bits lenny by downloading from
> > Google's site (.bin file) and having installed some "32lib-compat"
> > packages.
> >
> > But on that time (6 months ago) I didn't know there were pre-built
> > packages available in Debian repositories :-?
> >
>
> I thought that I had previously installed GoogleEarth (quite a while ago) from
> the repository on Google's site, but I may have been confusing it with Picasa,
> I might have used googleearth-package to generate the .deb. I'll give that a
> try.
>
> -Chris
In re. the googleearth-package. It is not googleearth; it is a downloader for
googleearth that installs it in a Debianly-Correct way. I like the convenience,
but if Google repository is down or moved, the package has little chance of
working successfully.
--
Paul E Condon
pecondon@mesanetworks.net
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