Goofleearthlinux

[Niloc]

I downloaded Google EarthLinux from the Google Earth site but it is a 'bin' file...

How do I get it to work??

Colin

[dave_boo]

I downloaded Google EarthLinux from the Google Earth site but it is a 'bin' file...

How do I get it to work??

Colin

I'll assume you downloaded the *.bin file to your desktop. Open up a terminal and type in

cd /Desktop

.

Than make sure it's exectuable with

sudo chmod +x *.bin

where *.bin is obviously the name of the file. As a hint, type in the first couple letters of the name and hit tab for auto-completion.

Next execute the file with

./*.bin

where again *.bin is the filename.

Alternatively you can run it with

sh *.bin

but I like the "./" better because I don't use those fingers when typing that much......

[Niloc]

Dave, it all appeared to work but if I double click on the picture of the earth, the program appears to start but immediately shuts down! What have I done wrong?

[Niloc]

Dave I reinstalled it and here is the output..

Uncompressing Google Earth for GNU/Linux 5.0.11337.1968..............................................................

loki_setup: Suspect size value for option option

loki_setup: Suspect size value for option option

loki_setup: Suspect size value for option option

Installing mimetypes...

Installing desktop menu entries...

Installing desktop icon...

Warning: Unable to create prefs directory '/home/colin/.googleearth'. File exists.

./googleearth-bin: relocation error: /usr/lib/i686/cmov/libssl.so.0.9.8: symbol BIO_test_flags, version OPENSSL_0.9.8 not defined in file libcrypto.so.0.9.8 with link time reference

colin@colin-desktop:~/Downloads$

Does this tell you anything??

Colin

[dave_boo]

Dave I reinstalled it and here is the output..

Uncompressing Google Earth for GNU/Linux 5.0.11337.1968..............................................................

loki_setup: Suspect size value for option option

loki_setup: Suspect size value for option option

loki_setup: Suspect size value for option option

Installing mimetypes...

Installing desktop menu entries...

Installing desktop icon...

Warning: Unable to create prefs directory '/home/colin/.googleearth'. File exists.

./googleearth-bin: relocation error: /usr/lib/i686/cmov/libssl.so.0.9.8: symbol BIO_test_flags, version OPENSSL_0.9.8 not defined in file libcrypto.so.0.9.8 with link time reference

colin@colin-desktop:~/Downloads$

Does this tell you anything??

Colin

The red highlighted stuff is your problem (and it seems to affect Hardy Heron-Ubuntu 8.10-is that what you're running?). A couple of quick terminal commands will get you in shape.

cd ~/google-earth 
rm libcrypto.so.0.9.8
ln -s /usr/lib/libcrypto.so libcrypto.so.0.9.8

What those commands do is (1)change into the google directory, (2) remove the 'libcrypto.so.0.9.8, and than create a symbolic link to the operating system's libcrypto.so.0.9.8. A bit complicated, but if the package maintainers would get busy and create a package for your distro you wouldn't have this problem.

[Niloc]

No worries Dave, it is all working perfectly, now I need a 3 month 'short course' on how to use it!!

Yes, I am running 8.04 and otherwise it is OK.

Thanks for your trouble!!

Colin