Hi Peter, > 2. I cannot get Google Earth to work. Nearly there, application is > running, but no earth.
I had the same problem. Excuse me for a bit of vagueness on but this was 18 months ago. If I remember right the problem was down to 'googleearth' installing the data files to the first user to run it. I naturally installed as 'root' and then went on to run the programme while still logged in as 'root'. So all the data files were set up in roots home directory with root access permissions. If I remember correctly the solution was as simple as 'rm -rf /root/,googleearth'. I don't think /opt/googleearth/ needed any attention at all. Then run GoogleEarth as your normal user and it will reconfigure itself and run properly. If this doesn't work then I'm pretty certain that 'uninstall, reinstall, exit root, and run as normal user' will do the trick. I believe that the CORRECT 'nix solution would be to setup a googleearth group, move the data to the /opt directory with 'googleearth' group permissions? Any cooments? However, this seems a bit complicated for the average desktop system & now that mine is working I'm invoking 'if it ain't broke, then don't fix it'. Cheers, Kev Giles -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday 2011-09-06 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
