GE problems

[Gene Heskett]

On Wednesday 31 October 2012 20:08:56 NoOp did opine:

> On 10/31/2012 02:34 AM, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > Greetings;
> > 
> > Ubuntu 10-04.4 LTS install on a phenom, using the neauvou driver on a
> > fairly recent, maybe 3 yo nvidia card.
> > 
> > Google earth decided to quit running, so I ripped it completely out,
> > then re-installed.
> > 
> > Anytime I do anything with synaptic, it ends fussing about libreoffice
> > and the menu/icon updating process.
> > 
> > However, reinstalling GE didn't get me a workbench icon to launch it
> > this time, so I hunted down the deb builder and tried to run it, both
> > as me:
> > 
> > gene at coyote:/CoCo$ /usr/bin/make-googleearth-package
> > cat: /etc/mailname: No such file or directory
> > --2012-10-31 05:09:41--
> > http://dl.google.com/earth/client/current/GoogleEarthLinux.bin
> > Resolving dl.google.com... 74.125.140.190, 74.125.140.91,
> > 74.125.140.93, ...
> > Connecting to dl.google.com|74.125.140.190|:80... connected.
> > HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
> > Length: 33688483 (32M) [application/octet-stream]
> > GoogleEarthLinux.bin: Permission denied
> > 
> > Cannot write to `GoogleEarthLinux.bin' (Permission denied).
> > Could not download Google Earth! (You may need to use --file)
> > 
> > I own everything in ~/gene, so perms should not be a problem.
> > 
> > And as root (sudo -i)
> > 
> > root at coyote:~# /usr/bin/make-googleearth-package
> > cat: /etc/mailname: No such file or directory
> > Refusing to run as root; use --force to override.
> > 
> > What the heck is /etc/mailname?  Never heard of nor seen it.
> 
> $ locate mailname
> /etc/mailname
> /usr/share/man/man5/mailname.5.gz
> 
> http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/precise/man5/mailname.5.html
> 
> foo at bar $ cat /etc/mailname
> should result in:
> bar
> 
This, for someone natted behind a router, is undefined at best.

This machines FQDN, on the local network is coyote.coyote.den, but to 
the outside world it has at least 3 other names for the email accounts 
I have, and for the web address which can be scraped from my sig. IOW, 
should it be accountname at mailserver or what?  ATM, the file does not 
exist and this install is nearly 1.5 years old now.  I have apparently 
never needed it before.

> > So what is the approved & recommended way to proceed?
> 
> Download the .deb and install:
> 
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/GoogleEarth
>   http://www.google.com/earth/download/ge/agree.html

I believe that is probably what synaptic has pulled in twice now.

gene at coyote:~/linuxcnc/configs/sim/axis$ ls -l /var/cache/apt/archives |grep googleearth
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 17689184 2010-01-23 13:09 googleearth_5.1.3533.1731-0medibuntu1_i386.deb
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    10738 2010-02-03 02:04 googleearth-package_0.5.7_all.deb

Which supposedly is installed.

Thanks.

Cheers, Gene
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