Re: googleearth-package (jessie)
On Sat, 3 Oct 2015 00:21:44 -0500
rlharris@oplink.net wrote:
> On Wed, September 30, 2015 1:08 am, Heracles wrote:
> > I just installed Google-Earth using "synaptic" in Debian8 and it worked
> > fine. It had to install a few other bits and pieces but as it did all the
> > work I was fine with it. Google-earth works without errors. Heracles
>
> Heracles,
>
> Would you be so kind as to outline the procedure for using synaptic to
> install the .deb package which I downloaded from the Google Earth web
> site?
>
> I use synaptic all the time, but always with packages which are in the
> Debian repositories. I searched and saw that some people are installing
> using "dpkg -i"; but does that take care of dependencies?
>
> I plan to run GE on a i386 laptop, so the package which I downloaded is
> the 32-bit:
>
> google-earth-stable_current_i386.deb
Use gdebi. That will handle dependencies.
Petter
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