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[Randall R Schulz <rschulz@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Saturday January 17 2009, Roman wrote:
> On January 17, 2009 03:57:58 pm Rajko M. wrote:
> > On Saturday 17 January 2009 04:30:25 am Masaru Nomiya wrote:
> > > Please execute as root.
> >
> > Any particular reason.
> > I can't recall that on any Google Earth installation I had to be a
> > root. It will be installed in home directory where user has
> > sufficient rights.
> >
> > --
> > Regards, Rajko
>
> You do not have to install Google Earth as root. I prefer to install
> locally.

True. You (the user running the installer) only need to be able to write 
to write to the directory in which you're installting.

I found an RPM for Google Desktop, so maybe Google will eventually go 
that route for all their Linux software.


> Cheers!
> Roman


Randall Schulz
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