How to install Google Earth on Linux Mint 14 Nadia with the Google deb package.

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)…

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Problems installing the FreeBSD operating system.

I am installing the FreeBSD 9.0 distribution on a spare hard disk, the first part of the installation is over and now I am installing the ports and other related packages. Once the system binaries and all other parts of the operating system are installed then I can try and…

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Ubuntu 12.04 Unity desktop and many annoying errors.

The Unity desktop in Ubuntu 12.04 is annoying the heck out of me at the moment. I keep getting popups that warn of errors with the Unity desktop and the associated system tray applications. A good reason to use KDE, I seem a little inflexible in my criticism of the…

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