No more lsb-core

[Teunis]

I was trying to install Google Earth and as we know it this has been a bit problematic yet possible for several years.

This time it failed on a missing dependency: lsb-core.

then I found out it's no longer in the repo's.

someone writes he was able to install Google Earth using the lsb-core deb of Debian 13.

Easy to get but for me impossible to install due to another dependency and dpkg that says it is broken.
Downloading it from different mirrors and even the Debian ftp server did not solve the problem.

[vinnywright]

Humm ,,,,I still have that

vinny@vinny-Bonobo-Extreme:~$ apt search lsb-core
Sorting... Done
Full Text Search... Done
lsb-core/now 4.1+Debian11ubuntu8 amd64 [installed,local]
  Linux Standard Base 4.1 core support package

it is leftover from this being 15.10 first ,,,,,then upgraded to 16.04

http://packages.ubuntu.com/wily/misc/lsb-core

VINNY

[LinkBot]

Linux Standard Base

Linux Standard Base wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_Standard_Base

Limitations on Debian
...
Debian strived to comply with the LSB, but with many limitations.[19] However, this effort ceased around July 2015 due to lack of interest and workforce inside the project.[20] In September 2015, the Debian project confirmed that while support for Filesystem Hierarchy Standard would continue, support for LSB had been dropped.[21] Ubuntu followed Debian in November 2015.[22]
...

22. https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source...0150917ubuntu1

lsb (9.20150917ubuntu1) xenial; urgency=medium

* Merge from Debian unstable, remaining changes:
- Add 01-upstart-lsb hook, to make executing rc.d scripts no-op if
there is an upstart job for that script.


* Dropped changes, merged upstream:
- Drop pyshared usage, well, dist-packages symlinks are in place.
- lsb-$foo packages are gone, hence dependencies/m-a changes are
irrelevant now...

Ubuntu package lsb-core available: http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?ke...ll&section=all


Ubuntu Development Version: http://ubuntuforums.org/forumdisplay.php?f=427
--> Thread: lsb-core?: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2306007

[Teunis]

Thanks LinkBot, using the wily deb's you pointed out and a lot of other libs I've managed to get Google Earth running on one computer.
Regretfully it has the well known problem of blank Panoramio frames.

And it didn't work out on the second computer.

I'll do some more tests over the weekend.