[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I suppose the easy cop-out solution is to just install it to > /opt/google/earth ? Would that be "correct"? (I want a pedantic > answer/discussion)
The easy solution is to install it wherever it pleases you. Google Earth comes with a graphical installer and an uninstaller, too. Those are the ones I dislike, as I do not want to have several distinct ways to install/uninstall packages. When I ask my package manager about what package a certain file belongs to, I want an answer unlike "/opt/google-earth/libGLU.so.1 not found in any package." I tried installation with setup.sh and various options last night. The -n option (no GUI) sounded good, but seems to stand for "do nothing". -p (path prefix) had no apparent effect, the same was true for -i (installation prefix). So I installed it (with GUI) to $HOME/google-earth (which couldn't be changed) and moved that directory to some other place. The good news is: It ran from there also. Just tried again as root: Now the installation directory is fixed as /opt/google-earth, despite calling setup.sh like that: ./setup.sh -i /opt/googleearth-4.2.205.5730 -b /usr/bin -p \ /var/lfs/ge-root Sigh. Why does "make it easy for computer illiterate" have to mean "make it hard or impossible for computer knowledgeable"? There might also be issues with desktop entries. (I do not run KDE or Gnome, except for gdm, just fvwm2, but I install them anyway). Was that pedantic enough? Hans-Joachim -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
