The Perfect Desktop - Slackware 12 - Page 7
13 Inventory (IV)
In the inventory list below I made the assumption that you installed the other applications from section 12 and checked them off with an [x]. Our inventory should now look like this:Graphics:
[x] The GIMP
[ ] Google Picasa
Internet:
[x] Firefox
[x] Thunderbird
[x] Java Runtime Environment
[x] Flash
[x] RealPlayer
[x] aKregator
[x] Pidgin
[x] Xchat IRC
[x] gFTP
[x] BitTorrent
[x] Guarddog
[ ] Google Earth
[x] Skype
Office:
[x] OpenOffice.org
[x] Adobe Acrobat reader
[x] Kontact
[x] Scribus
[x] kmymoney2
Sound & Video:
[x] Audacious
[x] K3B
[x] Noatun
[ ] VLC Media Player
Programming:
[x] Quanta Plus
[x] Kate
[x] The Java 2 SDK
System Utilities:
[x] htop
[x] iptraf
[x] netstat
[ ] Filelight
[x] KDE Info Center
[x] Konqueror
Other:
[ ] VMware Server
[x] NTFS-3G driver
[x] FUSE
14. Installing .bin files
Together we will install Google Picasa and Google Earth.Install Google Picasa
Open your browser window to http://picasa.google.com/linux/. Click Download Picasa for Linux:Then click:
Save the file:
In this example I created a directory named googlePicasa in my /downloads directory to save the file to:
You don't need to be root to run this installer.
In the terminal we run,
sh picasa-2.2.2820-5.i386.bin
Select your Options and then click Begin Install:
To start Picasa click Start:
Click I Agree:
Select a scanning option and click Continue:
Picasa opens:
To start Picasa at any time click the K Menu->Graphics->Picasa
Install Google Earth
Get the software at http://earth.google.com/download-earth.htmlClick Agree and Download:
Save the file to your downloads directory:
You don't need to be root to install Google Earth.
To install type,
sh GoogleEarthLinux.bin
Google Earth's default settings are OK, so click on Begin Install:
After the Google Earth installation, you can either select to start it immediately or to quit. I select Quit here (although it doesn't matter what you select):
Google Earth is at K Menu->Internet>Google Earth
In Google Earth you can view the Universe as well as the Earth. Click View->Switch to Sky:
15 Inventory (V)
Our inventory should now look like this:Graphics:
[x] The GIMP
[x] Google Picasa
Internet:
[x] Firefox
[x] Thunderbird
[x] Java Runtime Environment
[x] Flash
[x] RealPlayer
[x] aKregator
[x] Pidgin
[x] Xchat IRC
[x] gFTP
[x] BitTorrent
[x] Guarddog
[x] Google Earth
[x] Skype
Office:
[x] OpenOffice.org
[x] Adobe Acrobat reader
[x] Kontact
[x] Scribus
[x] kmymoney2
Sound & Video:
[x] Audacious
[x] K3B
[x] Noatun
[ ] VLC Media Player
Programming:
[x] Quanta Plus
[x] Kate
[x] The Java 2 SDK
System Utilities:
[x] htop
[x] iptraf
[x] netstat
[ ] Filelight
[x] KDE Info Center
[x] Konqueror
Other:
[] VMware Server
[x] NTFS-3G driver
[x] FUSE