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google earth will not stay running!

Asked by jeff

I downloaded google earth yesterday ,someone told me it would help to play my dvd's(or thats how i understood it)anyway
after downloading google earth I TRYED TO OPEN IT AND I CAN'T KEEP IT RUNNING! it just wants to shut down as soon as it starts to open!
anyone have any ideas on this?

One other thing is that i still can not play any dvd,s at all after doing what i was to try on QUESTION# 62657
you can see there what we already tryed to do to fix this problem

THANKS GUYS FOR YOUR SUPPORT
 FROM THE NEW GUY,
..........JEFF..........

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Bert Van de Poel (bhack) said : 		#1

Working google earth packages are part of medibuntu http://www.medibuntu.org/
Just follow the repository how-to, then install google-earth from synaptic.
(System->Administration->Synaptic Package Manager)

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Bhavani Shankar (bhavi) said : 		#2

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

sudo aptitude update && sudo aptitude install medibuntu-keyring && sudo aptitude update

This will add the Medibuntu repository, import the Medibuntu GPG key and make the new packages available.

Install Google Earth

sudo aptitude install googleearth-4.3

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peter (peter-neuweiler) said : 		#3

Bert

It shuts down the system. It shuts the system also down, if you downloaded it from www.googleearth.com.
Peter

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jeff (morrowjeff) said : 		#4

tryed that and still having problems with the viewing of it.It stsays open now but i can't see it very well .what should i try now

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marcobra (Marco Braida) (marcobra) said : 		#5

Please try to disable desktop-effects menu System → Preferences → Appearance [Visual effects] set them to "None"

Then retry

Hope this helps

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jeff (morrowjeff) said : 		#6

Marcobra,
Putting visual effects to "none" worked perfect thank you so much.
I will be back soon for some thing eles i am guessing ,seeing how i am new to ubuntu
thanks agian,
..........jeff........