Your thoughts are well understood, DrC. I suppose one possibility would be to make Google Earth available in the Canonical Partners repository in the same way as e.g. Skype. That way users would be able to install it through the Ubuntu Software Centre. Don't know the prerequisites for doing that, though.
@Steve: Is this possibly something you have considered? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Documentation Packages, which is subscribed to ubuntu-docs in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1268297 Title: Topics not covered by help. (Improve this guide) Status in “ubuntu-docs” package in Ubuntu: Invalid Bug description: 1. By its very nature resolving #327770 might solve this too. I didn't find the How To. 2. Context - I am trying to install Google Earth. If that is not a supported process, and if you deliberately do not support the Google install, it would be nice to have a pointer somewhere to that sort of possibility. 3. I could not find it in the Ubuntu store. I finally found it (for Ubuntu 64bit) using Google search. It downloaded (Firefox) & after some long worrying silences (not good) & some prodding (even worse?) the Ubuntu installer said it was installing. Google said thankyou (web page) 4. I have done a warm restart because I could not find the application on my desktop. I still can't find it as a user. 5. If I sudo, find it and manage to launch it, it is not clear how I can create an icon of the application. Ths bug report is explaining why I think the user guide will not meet the needs of a 'user' who would like to install Google Earth. A work- around would be very welcome but it is not the real point! There are generic gaps in the user guide which this specific problem exposes. Thanks ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04 Package: ubuntu-docs 12.04.6 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-58.88-generic 3.2.53 Uname: Linux 3.2.0-58-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu17.6 Architecture: amd64 Date: Sun Jan 12 12:51:50 2014 EcryptfsInUse: Yes MarkForUpload: True PackageArchitecture: all ProcEnviron: LANGUAGE=en_GB:en PATH=(custom, no user) LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: ubuntu-docs UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2013-10-01 (102 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-docs/+bug/1268297/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~documentation-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~documentation-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
