I d/l'd "GoogleEarthLinux.bin" to KDE yesterday. During the install, I was alerted:
Google Earth: Miss
You don't seem to have the Bitstream Vera Sans font installed.
I used apt-get to install the font and it seemed to go OK. per:
~# apt-get install ttf-bitstream-vera
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
ttf-bitstream-vera
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/354kB of archives.
After unpacking 750kB of additional disk space will be used.
Media change: please insert the disc labeled
'Debian GNU/Linux testing _Etch_ - Official Snapshot i386 NETINST Binary-1
20070204-08:45'
in the drive '/cdrom/' and press enter
Selecting previously deselected package ttf-bitstream-vera.
(Reading database ... 83867 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking ttf-bitstream-vera (from .../ttf-bitstream-vera_1.10-7_all.deb) ...
Setting up ttf-bitstream-vera (1.10-7) ...
No CIDSupplement specified for KochiGothic-Regular-JaH, defaulting to 0.
No CIDSupplement specified for KochiGothic-Regular, defaulting to 0.
Regenerating fonts cache... done.
But, when I try to run it, I get a message:
"GoogleEarth for GNU/Linux 4.0.2735.0"
"Installing mimetypes...
xdg-mime unknown command '--user'
Try 'xdg-mime --help for more information
Installing desktop menu entries...
Can some kind soul interpret this for me? The fonts for the program menus and tools are too small to read.