__/ [ The Ghost In The Machine ] on Tuesday 13 June 2006 16:00 \__
> In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Roy Schestowitz
> <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote
> on Tue, 13 Jun 2006 02:43:38 +0100
> <1692186.PHMFFfFAsc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>> http://earth.google.com/download-earth.html
>>
>> Enjoy!
>
> And for those with Gentoo:
>
> # emerge --sync (if necessary)
> # emerge googleearth
>
> Scary how fast that happened. :-)
Under SuSE, it could have been a case of click-to-open (from Konqueror, which
I happened to be using at the time). However, security is not lax. So I just
needed to change the bin file to executable (simple tick box would do, but I
prefer the command-line) and, from there onwards, it was a cruise.
Picasa and Earth for Linux prove that Linux installers can be made rather
excellent given the rigour and assuming the final product is not
'half-baked' or expect users to possess much expertise.
Exceptions:
Gentoo emerge (never used it, but I once read about it in a Wiki), apt-get,
Synaptic, and even Zen or YaST. I have no experience with Yum. When all else
fails, .configure && make && sudo make install;
YaST and its supplied RPM's, as well as Synaptic, rarely have dependency
issues, unless the distribution requires a free and trivial upgrade.
Best wishes,
Roy
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