I was trying to install the Google Earth 64bit *.deb package on Linux Mint 14 and I had some dependency errors.
john@adeptus-mechanicus ~/Downloads $ sudo dpkg -i google-earth-stable_current_amd64.deb [sudo] password for john: Selecting previously unselected package google-earth-stable. (Reading database ... 282027 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking google-earth-stable (from google-earth-stable_current_amd64.deb) ... dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of google-earth-stable: google-earth-stable depends on lsb-core (>= 3.2); however: Package lsb-core is not installed. dpkg: error processing google-earth-stable (--install): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured Processing triggers for menu ... Processing triggers for man-db ... Processing triggers for gnome-menus ... Processing triggers for bamfdaemon ... Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/bamf.index... Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils ... Errors were encountered while processing: google-earth-stable
I then used the sudo apt-get -f install command and this resolved the errors I got during the installation process for Google Earth.
john@adeptus-mechanicus ~/Downloads $ sudo apt-get -f install Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Correcting dependencies... Done The following package was automatically installed and is no longer required: libcurl3-gnutls:i386 Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove it. The following extra packages will be installed: alien debhelper intltool-debian lsb-core po-debconf Suggested packages: lsb-rpm lintian dh-make libmail-box-perl The following NEW packages will be installed: alien debhelper intltool-debian lsb-core po-debconf 0 upgraded, 5 newly installed, 0 to remove and 3 not upgraded. 1 not fully installed or removed. Need to get 949 kB of archives. After this operation, 1,945 kB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y Get:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ quantal/main intltool-debian all 0.35.0+20060710.1 [31.6 kB] Get:2 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ quantal/main po-debconf all 1.0.16+nmu2ubuntu1 [210 kB] Get:3 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ quantal/main debhelper all 9.20120608ubuntu1 [623 kB] Get:4 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ quantal/main alien all 8.88 [57.4 kB] Get:5 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ quantal-updates/main lsb-core amd64 4.0-0ubuntu26.1 [27.1 kB] Fetched 949 kB in 7s (119 kB/s) Preconfiguring packages ... Selecting previously unselected package intltool-debian. (Reading database ... 282356 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking intltool-debian (from .../intltool-debian_0.35.0+20060710.1_all.deb) ... Selecting previously unselected package po-debconf. Unpacking po-debconf (from .../po-debconf_1.0.16+nmu2ubuntu1_all.deb) ... Selecting previously unselected package debhelper. Unpacking debhelper (from .../debhelper_9.20120608ubuntu1_all.deb) ... Selecting previously unselected package alien. Unpacking alien (from .../archives/alien_8.88_all.deb) ... Selecting previously unselected package lsb-core. Unpacking lsb-core (from .../lsb-core_4.0-0ubuntu26.1_amd64.deb) ... Processing triggers for doc-base ... Processing 1 added doc-base file... Registering documents with scrollkeeper... Processing triggers for man-db ... Setting up intltool-debian (0.35.0+20060710.1) ... Setting up po-debconf (1.0.16+nmu2ubuntu1) ... Setting up debhelper (9.20120608ubuntu1) ... Setting up alien (8.88) ... Setting up lsb-core (4.0-0ubuntu26.1) ... Setting up google-earth-stable (6.2.2.6613-r0) ... Processing triggers for menu ...
After this the Google Earth application should be visible in your MATE menu under the Internet subfolder.
I am a computer enthusiast that has always been interested in maintaining and upgrading computer hardware. I was born on a farm and lived there for 13 years before moving into town. I was always interested in technology and my father always gave me good encouragement for developing my knowledge and interest in tinkering with computers. He was using a computer on the farm but that was in the very late 80`s and late 90`s. Seeing what a computer could do always fascinated me and then I knew that is what I wanted to do. The first time I used Linux was Red Hat 6.2 installed off a single CDROM and I was amazed that you did not need to install any more drivers on my old Intel Celeron machine to be able to enjoy a nice 24BPP desktop and use the GIMP to edit photos and enjoy playing the old Linux games like Xbill. Then a while later I tried Mandrake Linux 9.2 and I was hooked. It came with so much software and was very easy to use as well. Then Mandrake Linux 10 and on through FreeBSD, Debian 3.0, Debian 3.1 Suse Linux 9.2, Suse 10 and onto the Ubuntu distributions although I am using Fedora Core 15 and the Gnome 3 desktop at the moment.