02-28-2016, 10:12 PM
Hi Guys, Thanks for the input. This computer is an old Dell Dimension Desktop circa 2004. I want it for web surfing, e-mail, simple games, YouTube and Google Earth. Check for the first four in spades. One to go.
I ran the additional drivers utility with the result of no new drivers.
This display is currently running at 1024x768 pixels resolution.
I just checked Synaptic and Linuxlite has lsb-release ver. 4.1+Debian11ubuntu6 Linux Standard Base version reporting utility already installed. Also installed is lsb-security 4.1+Debian11ubuntu6 Linux Standard Base 4.1 Security package. Also available via Synaptic are several other lsb releases not installed including lsb-graphics 4.1+Debian11ubuntu6 Linux Standard Base 4.1 graphics support package, lsb-multimedia 4.1+Debian11ubuntu6 Linux Standard Base 4.1 Multimedia package, and others.
Thinking out loud: The latter two look promising, especially the graphics package, but not sure what to do without damaging something. Avj writes "According to the google earth download page it is required that you have Linux - LSB 4.0 (Linux Standard Base) libraries installed for it to work." Google is imprecise as there exists a family of options within the LSB libraries from which to choose. They do not specify. Since the latter two mentioned above are part of the LSB libraries and missing on my system, perhaps that is the missing link.
Any thoughts or further suggestions?
I ran the additional drivers utility with the result of no new drivers.
This display is currently running at 1024x768 pixels resolution.
I just checked Synaptic and Linuxlite has lsb-release ver. 4.1+Debian11ubuntu6 Linux Standard Base version reporting utility already installed. Also installed is lsb-security 4.1+Debian11ubuntu6 Linux Standard Base 4.1 Security package. Also available via Synaptic are several other lsb releases not installed including lsb-graphics 4.1+Debian11ubuntu6 Linux Standard Base 4.1 graphics support package, lsb-multimedia 4.1+Debian11ubuntu6 Linux Standard Base 4.1 Multimedia package, and others.
Thinking out loud: The latter two look promising, especially the graphics package, but not sure what to do without damaging something. Avj writes "According to the google earth download page it is required that you have Linux - LSB 4.0 (Linux Standard Base) libraries installed for it to work." Google is imprecise as there exists a family of options within the LSB libraries from which to choose. They do not specify. Since the latter two mentioned above are part of the LSB libraries and missing on my system, perhaps that is the missing link.
Any thoughts or further suggestions?