googleearth-package (jessie)

[rlharris@oplink.net]

Progress report:

I followed the tutorial http://sparkylinux.org/forum/index.php?topic=2535.0.

dpkg reported two missing dependencies, namely, libfreeimage3 and
lsb-core.  To install them, synaptic needed to uninstall googleearth.

After installing the two packages, I executed the dpkg -i command
suggested by dpkg (which command did not include the -f option), and the
installation completed without error.

However, upon launching /usr/bin/googleearth, nothing appears to happen. 
I noticed that the file was only 546 bytes, and is a bash script; it reads
as follows:

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#!/bin/sh

# 556102
export LC_ALL=C

cd /usr/lib/googleearth

# this no longer works with Google Earth 4.3, so we have to revert to
using LD_LIBRARY_PATH, sorry
#exec /lib/ld-linux.so.2 --library-path /usr/lib/googleearth
/usr/lib/googleearth/googleearth-bin "$@"

GOOGLE_EARTH_LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/googleearth
if [ ! -z "$LD_LIBRARY_PATH" ]; then
  LD_LIBRARY_PATH=${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}:${GOOGLE_EARTH_LD_LIBRARY_PATH}
else
  LD_LIBRARY_PATH=${GOOGLE_EARTH_LD_LIBRARY_PATH}
fi
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH
/usr/lib/googleearth/googleearth-bin "$@"

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Now what should I try?

RLH