[PLUG] Google Earth in Ubuntu

[Tony Rick]

On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 10:04 PM, Richard C. Steffens <rsteff at comcast.net>wrote:

> Carlos Konstanski wrote:
> > You should take "sudo" out of the equation.  Just install it as a normal
> > user.  Forget the root stuff.
> >
> On one of my attempts I tried that. There were several error messages
> indicating that it was unable to access or create certain directories.
>
>
Another possibility is that, in the repeated attempts at installation, some
directory
or directories in ~ got created by root and not removed, which would cause
errors
when attempting to install as a normal user.

- tony