Ubuntu

installation of an application

Asked by C Jack

As you may see by noting my list of previous questions, I had/have a problem installing GoogleEarthLinux. It is still there on my desktop, not installed.

Apparently my volunteer problem solvers gave up as many sessions back and forth with them did not resolve the problem which still exists.

I now have downloaded onto my desktop rrmap3demosetup.exe. It will not load and gives me the error message that "There is no application for this file type."

I am a total newbie and am continuously stopped by such messages.

What do I do - what application do I look for????

And why doesn't the Linux system have the capability to read the download and tell users what application we need and where to find it??? Why just leave us hanging???

Thanks
JJ

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Best Shane Fagan (shanepatrickfagan) said : 		#1

The problem you are having is that you are trying to install using the windows .exe format.
Ubuntu and all other linux use other formats. Ubuntu uses .deb to install applications.
You can use .exe by using a program called wine which emulates windows.
There is a google earth for linux I think thats a .bin try searching for it using google.

Hope that helps
Shane Fagan

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marcobra (Marco Braida) (marcobra) said : 		#2

To install GooglEarth and other applications as you can see here http://www.medibuntu.org/packages.php
Please add to your /etc/sources.list file the medibuntu repositories... http://www.medibuntu.org/

Open a Terminal from the menu Applications->Accessories->Terminal and type:

sudo wget http://www.medibuntu.org/sources.list.d/hardy.list -O /etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install medibuntu-keyring
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

sudo apt-get install googleearth

give your user password when requested, you don't see nothing when you type it, then press enter.

Hope this helps

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C Jack (arkiedriver) said : 		#3

Thanks shane fagan, that solved my question.