I use GE every single day.
I use it on my XP Laptop.
Ive never been able to get it to install
and run on My Ubuntu system since 6.x.

I just installed the latest GE 6 edition.
All dependenices are satisfied but,
when I click on the button - nothing.

If you enable the Medibuntu repository (http://medibuntu.org/), you can
then install it through Synaptic.

Actually, having just thought to check, that only installs version 5.1,
so not actually much help if you want version 6 :-)

I use GE every other day with no probs

That doesnt answer the question though.
I use it every single day too - 100% trouble
free - doesnt mean it works at all on my other
computer which is the reason for the question.

lsb-core must be installed.

Works 100% now.

I had tried various installs of Google-earth with no results.

I just tried it WITH the install of 'lsb-core' and it lights up 100% like there
was never anything wrong!! Why isn't this part of the google-earth install?

I have no idea why they dont look for that.
Im not sure what that lsb-core does either but,
I will tell you many things seem to be running
smoother - including Opera (which is odd but -
I dont care since its working

LSB = Linux Standard Base.

From Wikipedia, "The Linux Standard Base (LSB) is a joint project by
several Linux distributions under the organizational structure of the
Linux Foundation to standardize the software system structure, including
the filesystem hierarchy, used with Linux operating system. The LSB is
based on the POSIX specification, the Single UNIX Specification, and
several other open standards, but extends them in certain areas"

I *think* that what it means is that it's a way to make all flavours of
Linux behave the same way under the hood so that developers don't have
to worry about the idiosyncrasies of each, but haven't really dug deep
enough into the subject to really be sure.

I also did a recent install of Google Earth and could not get it to run until I
found a reference to the lsb-core needing to be installed too. I installed that
and GE works fine now.

This site tells you how

www.instructables.com/.../How-to-install-Google-Earth-in-Linux-the-easy-wa\
y/

I didnt do any of that and there is still nothing about lsb-core.

I just found out that the official Google Earth website now has pre-compiled
deb files that make installation easy and failsafe (well almost anyway!)