March 26, 200917 yr I downloaded Google EarthLinux from the Google Earth site but it is a 'bin' file... How do I get it to work?? Colin
March 26, 200917 yr 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......
March 26, 200917 yr Author 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?
March 26, 200917 yr Author 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
March 26, 200917 yr 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.
March 27, 200917 yr Author 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
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