High all, does in fact ggogle-earth 64 bit work on Debian AMD64. I downloaded google-earth-stable_current_amd64.deb from there web site, it installed OK with dpkg. On startup it displayed a message box saying something like "the graphics adaptor is unsupported..........". Clicking the OK button caused GE to crash. If you click on the other button "do not display this error message again", next time one tries to run it it starts OK, seems to connect to its server OK but its as slow as a wet week, and I do mean slow. A comment from frustration.............. Why is this sort of thing so hard when changing Linux in any major way (in this case, changing from 32 to 64 bit, ALWAYS there is something that will not work. Now I have been mucking around with Linux now since 1993 and I have spent a lot of time working out why things will not work, so its not as if I have not tried, but these days I like a quite life, I just want the system to do WHAT I WANT. I have had Debian AMD64 installed on this machine for nearly a year and I STILL have not go it working as well as my 32 bit boxes, everything just works on them. Searching on the net did not help, all solutions proposed did not match my error. Installing via the debian package system did not work either, it complaining about lack of 32 bit libraries, what in the hell is a 64 bit exicutable want with 32 bit lbraries. I am very close to nukeing AMD64 here and installing good old 32 bit. A very frustrated, Lindsay