02-29-2016, 07:11 PM
Thanks everybody, I finally got Google Earth to work!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This was my path. Besides the above I installed lsb-graphics 4.1+Debian11ubuntu6 Linux Standard Base 4.1 graphics support package and lsb-multimedia 4.1+Debian11ubuntu6 Linux Standard Base 4.1 Multimedia package, first the former and tested, then the latter and tested, both to no avail. Turns out the key package was lsb-core which came preinstalled with Linuxlite. I then uninstalled Google Earth. This turned out to be a real challenge as Synaptic could not do it. Maybe it is because the Google Earth package came from the Google website and not a Linux repository. I did a crash course in terminal use during this whole process and it required the terminal to uninstall Google Earth. I used the command line instructions from this site. http://www.ehow.com/how_2279483_uninstal...buntu.html
I then decided to try the package from Synaptic entitled 'googleearth-package' following the instructions found here: http://blog.irwan.name/?p=103. This package appears to promise to download and create a more Debian friendly Google Earth from Google. Since this was the only thing left for me to try at the time, I did it. And it worked!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It wasn't totally straightforward. The install initially failed as there was a missing package called libfreeimages3. Google Earth was labeled broken by Symantic. I found libfreeimages3 by searching in Symantic and installing. Google Earth was no longer broken and a repeated install attempt via the terminal succeeded. Note that for me, the final command that worked in terminal was: make-googleearth-package
Which came from the blog.irwan above. My terminal did not create that command. It created: make-googleearth-package.1.gz which failed. Perhaps this is because I am so unfamiliar with terminal use. Anyway, the use of the correct command worked.
That commanded created: sudo dpkg -i googleearth_6.0.3.2197+1.1.0-1_i386.deb
which installed a full functioning Google Earth.
Many Thanks to all those who contributed their help!
Jerry
This was my path. Besides the above I installed lsb-graphics 4.1+Debian11ubuntu6 Linux Standard Base 4.1 graphics support package and lsb-multimedia 4.1+Debian11ubuntu6 Linux Standard Base 4.1 Multimedia package, first the former and tested, then the latter and tested, both to no avail. Turns out the key package was lsb-core which came preinstalled with Linuxlite. I then uninstalled Google Earth. This turned out to be a real challenge as Synaptic could not do it. Maybe it is because the Google Earth package came from the Google website and not a Linux repository. I did a crash course in terminal use during this whole process and it required the terminal to uninstall Google Earth. I used the command line instructions from this site. http://www.ehow.com/how_2279483_uninstal...buntu.html
I then decided to try the package from Synaptic entitled 'googleearth-package' following the instructions found here: http://blog.irwan.name/?p=103. This package appears to promise to download and create a more Debian friendly Google Earth from Google. Since this was the only thing left for me to try at the time, I did it. And it worked!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It wasn't totally straightforward. The install initially failed as there was a missing package called libfreeimages3. Google Earth was labeled broken by Symantic. I found libfreeimages3 by searching in Symantic and installing. Google Earth was no longer broken and a repeated install attempt via the terminal succeeded. Note that for me, the final command that worked in terminal was: make-googleearth-package
Which came from the blog.irwan above. My terminal did not create that command. It created: make-googleearth-package.1.gz which failed. Perhaps this is because I am so unfamiliar with terminal use. Anyway, the use of the correct command worked.
That commanded created: sudo dpkg -i googleearth_6.0.3.2197+1.1.0-1_i386.deb
which installed a full functioning Google Earth.
Many Thanks to all those who contributed their help!
Jerry