I mentioned in my previous post that I was getting an "invalid HTTP request" error on search's. Now this is caused by the Debian built package including a problematical version of libcurl (/usr/lib/googleearth/libcurl.so.4), to fix the above problem all that is required is to remove this library (googleearth will use the systems libcurl). I did this by renaming libcurl. Note, the Debian package supplied by the google earth web site does not have a version of libcurl with it. Lindsay