Re: googleearth-package (jessie)

[Heracles]

On 04/10/15 18:59, Heracles wrote:



On 03/10/15 15:21, rlhar...@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?



Hi Rus,
I followed this: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.p...ght=local+repo
which worked quite well but using gdebi is a simpler method.
Heracles

That should be: 
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=42862&highlight=local+repo

Heracles

Re: googleearth-package (jessie)

[Heracles]

On 03/10/15 15:21, rlhar...@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

Thanks.

Russ


Hi Rus,
I followed this: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.p...ght=local+repo 
<http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=42862&highlight=local+repo>

which worked quite well but using gdebi is a simpler method.
Heracles

Re: googleearth-package (jessie)

[Heracles]

On 30/09/15 15:55, rlhar...@oplink.net wrote:

On Wed, September 30, 2015 12:38 am, Heracles wrote:

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 ...

Thanks for the tip.  I decided that I rather devote to GE a Linux machine
on the BLUE port of my router (which is isolated from the GREEN port),
rather than to endure the insult of a W$ machine on the premises.   And
while I still hope to run GE under Debian, Ubuntu is preferable to W$.

RLH




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

Re: [OT] Free software vs non-free, here we go again

[Heracles]

On 30/09/15 14:20, Eliezer Croitoru wrote:
Leaving debian, ubuntu, redhat, ms and all the others aside for a sec, 
what a company expects from a sysadmin is not to be programmer.





Can we keep religious wars off the list. They fill up the inbox and 
achieve nothing.
Sysadmins administer whatever they are asked to administer; they often 
don't have the luxury of choosing the OS.



Heracles

Re: googleearth-package (jessie)

[Heracles]

On 30/09/15 14:31, rlhar...@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

Re: An issue with the Debian installer

[Heracles]

On 26/09/15 12:14, LinuxAus . wrote:


One simple alternative is to download wukulu Linux which is Debian 
with the enlightenment desktop. Then let it upgrade. When I did it I 
ended up with a good Debian 8 system with everything working, my WiFi, 
my printers etc.



That should read Makulu Linux!

On 26/09/2015 10:38 AM, "Antti Talsta" > wrote:


On Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 09:07:34PM +0200, Zack wrote:
> I do not understand why the installer do not install the desktop
environment
> (GNOME).

Maybe you didn't tell it to install it? I don't remember if DE is
selected by default during installation. Probably not cause at least
netinstall has many choices for DE/VM.

--
Antti Talsta

Re: Can't Log in

[Heracles]

On 21/09/15 22:49, ray wrote:

Sven

Thank you very much.  I have installed LXDE and I don't know how to open a 
console.  Please suggest how I might learn to do that.


I had a similar problem with a version of ubuntu after making a lot of 
changes. To fix the problem I created a new user and that worked. I then 
renamed my original home directory and deleted myself as a user and 
added myself as a user to get a new clean home directory. I then moved 
most of my original home directory back (after chown -R of course). This 
was the easiest work-around I could think of at the time.

Heracles

Re: Currency problem

[Heracles]

Sorted, thanks for the assistance. It turned out that the "Chrome 
currency converter" was installed. I don't know how as I don't remember 
installing it. I disabled and deleted it and now I'm back to some form 
of sanity!
I've been using Linux since the mid 1990s but this is my first 
successful attempt at Debian.

Thanks again.

Heracles

On 15/09/15 17:16, Curt wrote:

On 2015-09-15, Heracles  wrote:

When I use Google Chrome it converts all currency to euros. What have I
done wrong?
Heracles


I don't believe it has anything to do with your locale.  I would check
your browser language settings (use the wrench, Luke) and set them to
English (Australian) and see what happens.


You're not running the extension (Chrome Currency Converter), are you?

Currency problem

[Heracles]

I have Debian 8 installed and cannot get it to display in Australian 
Dollars. I have set the locale to English(Australian) and get the 
following readout from locale:


LANG=en_AU
LANGUAGE=
LC_CTYPE="en_AU"
LC_NUMERIC="en_AU"
LC_TIME="en_AU"
LC_COLLATE="en_AU"
LC_MONETARY="en_AU"
LC_MESSAGES="en_AU"
LC_PAPER="en_AU"
LC_NAME="en_AU"
LC_ADDRESS="en_AU"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_AU"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_AU"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_AU"
LC_ALL=

When I use Google Chrome it converts all currency to euros. What have I 
done wrong?

Heracles