NICE: Google Earth!!

[mattisking]

Ok, so I realize this isn't really about Edgy but I generally only hang out in the development forum... so feel free to move it where-ever.

At any rate, Google Earth has now been released with native support for Linux! It runs great!

http://slashdot.org/articles/06/06/12/2050255.shtml
http://earth.google.com/download-earth.html

[nehalem]

Yes it does. On this day I love Google.

[RS3York]

Great news!

[lexxonnet]

Yay... been waiting for this for a while now!
Runs great as well...

So... who's making the deb package

[evil_elman]

And what do you have to do in order to be able to use a .bin file?

Re-package it?

[sumadartson]

chmod +x GoogleEarth.whatever.the.bin.is.called.bin
./GoogleEarth.whatever.the.bin.is.called.bin

It then installs itself in a newly created google-earth directory in the current user's home dir.

A .deb would be nice... but this is already fantastic. I can see my house from here!

[DeeZiD]

Yay!!!!!!!!

Great news

[DeeZiD]

It works great here, even with Xgl

[evil_elman]

Easiest installation I've ever seen... We should have more of these 'Windows-like' installation if I might say so myself.

All other products I've installed so far has been software which isn't available in repositories and they have been a pain in comparison to this.

[DeeZiD]

Easiest installation I've ever seen... We should have more of these 'Windows-like' installation if I might say so myself.

All other products I've installed so far has been software which isn't available in repositories and they have been a pain in comparison to this.

The installation is great.
Only doubleclick on the .bin file and the setup starts