__/ [ M ] on Tuesday 13 June 2006 20:33 \__
> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>
>> __/ [ M ] on Tuesday 13 June 2006 17:06 \__
>>
>>> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>>
>>>> http://earth.google.com/download-earth.html
>>>>
>>>> Enjoy!
>>>
>>> Installed OK, although I had to add the KDE menu items manually.
>>>
>>> Not sure if I installed it to the right place as I just accepted the
>>> defaults, seems to want to run in 'admin' mode.
>>>
>>> Silly question, how would you uninstall it if you wanted to?
>>
>>
>> There is an executable called 'uninstall'. Default installation path is
>> /home/<you>/googlearth , so you will find it there. I wonder if you left
>> the box ticked for a sort link to be created (shortcut); /home/<you> was
>> the path, IIRC. The latest stage of the installer seems to have modified
>> my KDE menus (kicker) accordingly.
>>
>>
>>> Doesn't appear in the package manager, probable not too surprising, but I
>>> must confess as that is the central location for packages I'm not too
>>> fond of installing things that don't appear in it.
>>
>>
>> The program was not installed outside your personal profile, so a simple
>> rm -rf ~/googlearth would probably do a complete removal, with the
>> exception of settings, the link, and the menu entry. That's what the
>> un-installation script is for, I suppose.
>>
>
> Looks like it has put Uninstall in /usr/local/googleearth. May be I screwed
> up somewhere.
No, it seems to have had it installed correctly, to be shared among all
users. I deliberately did this the wrong way because I want my programs to
'travel' with the data.
> Thanks Roy :-)
No problem, mate.
Best wishes,
Roy
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