Wesley J. Landaker wrote:
> On Sunday 16 November 2008 10:54:31 Sheridan Hutchinson wrote:
>> I installed google-earth on my 32-bit x86 laptop and the package
>> created built correctly.
>> 
>> When trying exactly the same procedure on my 64-bit x86-64 desktop
>> the package fails to build.
>> 
>> Final part of the build log to follow.  If you require any other
>> details then let me know and I can get it to you within 24 hours
>> most likely:
> 
>> Depends: ttf-dejavu | ttf-bitstream-vera | msttcorefonts,  ,
>> ia32-libs
> 
> The problem is that dpkg-shlibdeps can't find any libraries at all.
> If you install ia32-libs and friends first, then run again, it will
> probably work.
> 
> I'll see what I can do about fixing this in the next version.
> 
> The current situation with building googleearth packages for x86-64
> is rather fragile, and I may fix this in the future by simply
> hard-coding dependencies instead of using dpkg-shlibdeps, but of
> course this means it's more fragile WRT Google Earth updates...

Thank you for the reply.

At the moment it's not really appropriate to install all the packages
that ia32-libs pulls in on this box so I'll defer trying for now and
just use it on my laptop instead.

Thanks for your help though.

-- 
Regards,
Sheridan Hutchinson
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