Re: googleearth-package (jessie)

[Heracles <heracles@iprimus.com.au>]

On 30/09/15 14:31, rlharris@oplink.net wrote:
> Further progress:
>
> Launching googlearth from a terminal prompt produces the error message:
>
> /usr/lib/googleearth-bin: error while loading shared libraries:
> libcurl.so.4 cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory.
>
> Jessie has the following libcurl3 packages:
>      libcurl3
>      libcurl3-gnutls
>      libcurl3-ncs
>
> but only the following libcurl4 packages:
>      libcurl4-gnutls-dev
>      libcurl4-nss-dev
>      libcurl4-openssl-dev
>
> Would any of these satisfy googleearth-bin?
>
> RLH
I'm not sure if it still the case, but to get google-earth working on my 
64 bit system some months ago I had to patch the script and repack the 
package. The instructions on what was required was (and probably still 
is) available on the net. I was using Ubuntu back then but it may also 
be true for Debian.
Heracles