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Re: is google earth safe to install?



On Tue, 2015-09-01 at 13:09 -0500, rlharris@oplink.net wrote:
> On Tue, September 1, 2015 9:47 am, Darac Marjal wrote:
> > In that case, consider "marble", which provides a similar "virtual
> > globe" and is LGPL 2.1+ licensed.
> 
> I did install marble.  Perhaps my installation is not correctly
> configured, but after seeing the detailed photograph of "Tour Eiffel" 
> on
> the google.com website which advertises google earth, I am 
> disappointed in
> marble.
> 
> For example, looking at London, I see nothing but pixels in shades of
> green and tan.

Have you tried using Google Maps, and street view?

BTW, you should be able to use GE on amd64 if you enable multi-arch. 

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