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Google Earth and Google Maps

There is a difference between these two applications. Google maps (GM) can be accessed on any computer with internet. Google Earth (GE) needs to be installed. I learned today that I cannot make a GE kml from GM unless the privacy is turned off.

Gnome menus

 I wanted to add an application, which I installed manually, to the main menu. Nothing happened. After searching around, I cam across complaints about alacarte, the menu editing application for Gnome. I had never heard of it. This is one of the few times that looking at .xsession-errors in my home directory actually helped. IN addition to the errors I don't understand, there were some  "permission denied" errors with alacarte references. This led me to this solution, thanks to jpeddicord on the Ubuntu Forums for this solution:

sudo chown -R gianluigi:gianluig ~/.config

Music

Opened Rhythm Box radio player, said yes to the codecs and played some stuff. Great! Second most important thing is music!

Install Google Earth

Perhaps my favorite application, it has to install otherwise, Linux cannot compete with Microsoft.

I followed directions in Software install. Had to look for where google earth installer was made.
Run:
/usr/bin/make-googleearth-package


ttf was missing so I had to install it. The install software would not do it unless I unchecked all the extra repositories.

 sudo dpkg -i googleearth_5.1.3535.3218+0.5.7-1_i386.deb

Package: googleearth
Version: 5.1.3535.3218+0.5.7-1
Section: non-free/science
Architecture: i386
Depends: ttf-dejavu | ttf-bitstream-vera | msttcorefonts, libc6 (>= 2.1.3), libc6 (>= 2.2), libc6 (>= 2.3), libc6 (>= 2.3.2), libc6 (>= 2.3.6-6~), libc6 (>= 2.4), libfreetype6 (>= 2.2.1), libgcc1 (>= 1:4.1.1), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.12.0), libice6 (>= 1:1.0.0), libsm6, libstdc++6 (>= 4.1.1), libstdc++6 (>= 4.2.1), libx11-6, libx11-6 (>= 0), libxext6, libxext6 (>= 0), libxrender1, nvidia-current, zlib1g (>= 1:1.1.4)

It WORKS!

Ubuntu 10.04

I love the look of Ubuntu. Someone with influence over these things has a great sense of color. Previous to this version were brownish, warm colors. This one has the color theme of an aubergine (eggplant in the US. Aubergine sounds nicer.)

That said, I have been frequently frustrated with Ubuntu as well. It did not do well on my Pentium II.

I wanted to import windows documents for new users but I could not find how to do it. I did find some code called ubuntu-10.04-start-0.4.9.7.tar.gz. I installed it, hoping that it would fix a few odd items. One is having the window button on the left, which was driving me crazy and would surely repel the rest of my family from linux. It works nicely but did not help with importing Windows.

I also want to label the WIndows partitions the same way they are labelled on Windows.i.e. C, E, F. Stay tuned.

Unfortunately, the fonts are not the ones I like. Also, somehow, the buttons got shifted to the left corner of the window again.
Try Applications-> System Tools-> Ubuntu Tweak