google earth again

[acheron]

An update to the above update also now available on mirrors for xenial.

Available in the 'updates' pocket.

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source...60110ubuntu0.2

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[GreyGeek]

The update came through a couple hours ago!

[acheron]

The update came through a couple hours ago!

Great.

[GreyGeek]

And, GoogleEarth runs great!

[alpreston]

Note: My system is a fresh install of 16.04 on top of Btrfs, not an upgrade from any previous release. it does have i32 architecture enabled. It may be that files carried over during an upgrade of a previous version may have allowed a successful install of Google-Earth. Or, something related to Btrfs may have prevented it in my case.

Following the method given in Snowhog's link failed to install Google-Earth, giving a "missing dependency" for the lsb-core file linked at that site. The repository does not contain either the 64 or the 32bit lsb-core package.

The repository does have a "googleearth-package". Installing it creates a "make-googleearth-package" program which has to be run a the user, not root. Doing so creates the "googleearth_6.0.3.2197+1.2.0-1_amd64.deb" installation package. Running sudo -i googleearth_6.0.3.2197+1.2.0-1_amd64.deb ends with the following msg:


The lack of lsb-core kills the process no matter which route I try.

I have, like others since 9.04, relied on Google Maps. During my three month foray into Mint 17.3 KDE4 the GoogleEarth package also failed to install. Prior to 9.04 GoogleEarth began to fail when it would crash during second and subsequent search operations. That issue was never resolved, except by closing GE and trying another search. Rinse and repeat. it got to be such a pain I went to Google Maps and never returned to GE.

lsb-core is in the Canonical Partners repository, which is not enabled by default on clean installs of Ubuntu 16.04. Enabling that repository makes lsb-core and several other lsb- packages available.

[acheron]

lsb-core is in the Canonical Partners repository, which is not enabled by default on clean installs of Ubuntu 16.04. Enabling that repository makes lsb-core and several other lsb- packages available.

Xenial partners repo contains just

Package: skype
Package: adobe-flashplugin
Package: adobe-flash-properties-gtk
Package: adobe-flash-properties-kde
Package: gce-daemon
Package: gce-startup-scripts
Package: gce-imagebundle
Package: google-cloud-sdk
Package: gce-cloud-config

lsb-core is in the main archive updates. Initial version went into proposed for that on June 21st.

[GreyGeek]

lsb-core is in the Canonical Partners repository, which is not enabled by default on clean installs of Ubuntu 16.04. Enabling that repository makes lsb-core and several other lsb- packages available.

Nope. Not on my clean install. I always enable ALL the repositories after I complete the install. Up until the update a couple days ago a search for lab-core ALWAYS came up empty.