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Re: Google Earth 5.0 Installation Problems

by Chris Mohler :: Rate this Message:

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On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 12:20 PM, Dotan Cohen <dotancohen@...> wrote:
>>> Google has not released Google Earth 5. There is a beta version of
>>> Google Earth 5 available. That is not a release.
>>
>> By that logic, you should not be using gmail (beta)  ;)
>>
>
> I didn't say not to use it. I said not to install it as root. Neither
> have I installed Gmail as root to my system.

Well, I don't see the harm in it - the loki installer just dumps a
bunch of binaries into /opt and makes a few menu entries.  I like to
have it available system-wide to all users as well...

Hell, the bind shipping with Ubuntu was *alpha* on one release (Hardy?)

Chris

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