On Sat, October 3, 2015 3:56 pm, Lisi Reisz wrote: > I also thought that the package you were trying to install was > called "googleearth". It says so in the subject line. Ah! A search > suggests that you did actually mean googleearth not gnome-earth.
As best as I can put together the pieces, some time ago Google created a Debian package of Google Earth (gnome-earth-stable_current_i386.deb); the package is available for download from http://www.google.com/earth/. But until recently, Debian users have experienced difficulty installing the package and some have found the program problematic, once installed. So, someone in the realm of Debian put together a package called "googleearth-package", the function of which is to (1) download from the Google web site the latest stable revision of Google Earth, (2) from it build a new Debian package, and (3) install the new Debian package. That appears to have been a good solution. However, pretty much coincident with the advent of Jessie, the "gnome-earth-stable_current_i386.deb" package provided by Google appears to install and run properly, at least when installed with the command "gdebi gnome-earth-stable_current_i386.deb". So, at the present time, it appears that the need for "googleearth-package" has passed -- at least with respect to Jessie (and in my case, with the combination of Xfce on an i386 system). Direct installation with gdebi is simpler and faster. P.S. I am posting this to the list simply because the knowledge would have saved me a number of hours of search and trial and error. Russ
