GoogleEarth

[zenarcher]

Could someone tell me if there is a repository for Google, so I could try to install GoogleEarth in Fedora 11. I have downloaded GoogleEarth from the GoogleEarth website and installed it, but I seem to have problems getting it to run. I see the GoogleEarth splash screen...but nothing more. I have tried renaming libcrypto.so.0.9.8 to libcrypto.so.0.9.8.bak, which solves the problem with some other Linux distros, but doesn't seem to help here.

Maybe someone could let me know if others are having a problem with GoogleEarth in Fedora 11, or if it's something I'm doing wrong.

Edit: Incidentally, previous installations of GoogleEarth using other distros was done on this same box with the same hardware. Nothing changed except for installing Fedora.

Thanks,
zenarcher

[leigh123linux]

http://leigh123linux.fedorapeople.org/pub/rpm/11/


P.S selinux will complain and will need setting to allow google earth to run

[zenarcher]

Thanks for that link...I will give it a try. I forgot to mention that I have SELinux disabled, so I don't think that is causing the problem. I'll try your link and post back.

Thanks,
zenarcher

[zenarcher]

I downloaded from the link leigh provided and opted to open with kpackagekit, but nothing happened. I then downloaded and saved to the desktop and tried to open with kpackagekit and with package installer both...and nothing happens. Just a bouncing cursor which eventually goes away. Am I doing something wrong, or is there another way to try to install?

Thanks,
zenarcher

[leigh123linux]

Try

su
yum install wget
wget http://dnmouse.org/fedora/googleearth/9/googleearth-5.0.11733.9347-1.fc9.i386.rpm
yum --nogpgcheck install googleearth-5.0.11733.9347-1.fc9.i386.rpm

[zenarcher]

Thanks for that, leigh. I followed your instructions, but when I try to start GoogleEarth, I see the splash screen then, it goes away. I tried running googleearth from a terminal and here's what I get:

[zenarcher@localhost ~]$ googleearth
Google Earth has caught signal 11.

Stacktrace from glibc:
./googleearth-bin [0x806c343]
./googleearth-bin [0x806c8b6]
[0x7d3400]
/usr/lib/libX11.so.6(XInitExtension+0x3b) [0xbb93fb]
/usr/lib/libXext.so.6(XextAddDisplay+0x4c) [0x89385c]
/usr/lib/libGL.so.1 [0x68096c4]
/usr/lib/libGL.so.1 [0x6809cda]
/usr/lib/libGL.so.1 [0x6807eb9]
/usr/lib/googleearth/libIGGfx.so(_ZN3Gap3Gfx18igOglVisualContext15setSw apIntervalEi+0x124) [0x24b0a34]
/usr/lib/googleearth/libIGGfx.so(_ZN3Gap3Gfx18igOglVisualContext4openEv +0x5c8) [0x24d1358]
/usr/lib/googleearth/libevll.so(_ZN5earth4evll13VisualContext11OpenCont extEN3Gap3Gfx25igRenderDestinationFormatERKNS0_8In itInfoE+0x101) [0x48e5a01]
/usr/lib/googleearth/libevll.so(_ZN5earth4evll13VisualContext4initERKNS 0_8InitInfoE+0x22d) [0x48f0b6d]
/usr/lib/googleearth/libevll.so(_ZN5earth4evll17RenderContextImpl4initE RKNS0_8InitInfoE+0x87) [0x47b97a7]
./librender.so(_ZN12RenderWidget6SetApiEPN5earth4evl l3APIE+0x47) [0x57f0e67]
./librender.so(_ZN5earth6render12RenderWindow12creat eWidgetEv+0xae) [0x57d092e]
./libgoogleearth_lib.so(_ZN5earth6client12ModuleWidg et9showEventEP10QShowEvent+0x8e) [0x3ef14e]
./libQtGui.so.4(_ZN7QWidget5eventEP6QEvent+0x7cf) [0x100815f]
./libQtGui.so.4(_ZN19QApplicationPrivate13notify_hel perEP7QObjectP6QEvent+0xa8) [0xfc6130]
./libQtGui.so.4(_ZN12QApplication6notifyEP7QObjectP6 QEvent+0x122) [0xfcd916]
./libQtCore.so.4(_ZN16QCoreApplication14notifyIntern alEP7QObjectP6QEvent+0x9a) [0x2242f2]
./libQtGui.so.4(_ZN14QWidgetPrivate11show_helperEv+0 x11f) [0x100afc3]
./libQtGui.so.4(_ZN14QWidgetPrivate14show_recursiveE v+0x7b) [0x100ad0f]
./libQtGui.so.4(_ZN14QWidgetPrivate12showChildrenEb+ 0x15c) [0x100ae98]
./libQtGui.so.4(_ZN14QWidgetPrivate11show_helperEv+0 x42) [0x100aee6]
./libQtGui.so.4(_ZN7QWidget10setVisibleEb+0x3bb) [0x100b4bb]
./libQtGui.so.4(_ZN14QWidgetPrivate12showChildrenEb+ 0x146) [0x100ae82]
./libQtGui.so.4(_ZN14QWidgetPrivate11show_helperEv+0 x42) [0x100aee6]
./libQtGui.so.4(_ZN14QWidgetPrivate14show_recursiveE v+0x7b) [0x100ad0f]
./libQtGui.so.4(_ZN14QWidgetPrivate12showChildrenEb+ 0x15c) [0x100ae98]
./libQtGui.so.4(_ZN14QWidgetPrivate11show_helperEv+0 x42) [0x100aee6]
./libQtGui.so.4(_ZN7QWidget10setVisibleEb+0x3bb) [0x100b4bb]
./libQtGui.so.4(_ZN14QWidgetPrivate12showChildrenEb+ 0x146) [0x100ae82]
./libQtGui.so.4(_ZN14QWidgetPrivate11show_helperEv+0 x42) [0x100aee6]
./libQtGui.so.4(_ZN7QWidget10setVisibleEb+0x3bb) [0x100b4bb]
./libQtGui.so.4(_ZN14QWidgetPrivate12showChildrenEb+ 0x146) [0x100ae82]
./libQtGui.so.4(_ZN14QWidgetPrivate11show_helperEv+0 x42) [0x100aee6]
./libQtGui.so.4(_ZN7QWidget10setVisibleEb+0x3bb) [0x100b4bb]
./libQtGui.so.4(_ZN14QWidgetPrivate12showChildrenEb+ 0x146) [0x100ae82]
./libQtGui.so.4(_ZN14QWidgetPrivate11show_helperEv+0 x42) [0x100aee6]
./libQtGui.so.4(_ZN7QWidget10setVisibleEb+0x3bb) [0x100b4bb]
./libQtGui.so.4(_ZN14QWidgetPrivate12showChildrenEb+ 0x146) [0x100ae82]
./libQtGui.so.4(_ZN14QWidgetPrivate11show_helperEv+0 x42) [0x100aee6]
./libQtGui.so.4(_ZN7QWidget10setVisibleEb+0x3bb) [0x100b4bb]
./libQtGui.so.4(_ZN7QWidget10showNormalEv+0x4a) [0x100080e]
./libgoogleearth_lib.so(_ZN10MainWindow18readScreens izeInfoEv+0xbfa) [0x3c095a]
./libgoogleearth_lib.so(_ZN5earth6client11Applicatio n12SetupMainWinERK7QStringb+0x1f0) [0x429890]
./libgoogleearth_lib.so(_ZN5earth6client11Applicatio n3runEv+0x313) [0x42a5f3]
./googleearth-bin(main+0x286) [0x806cde6]
/lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xe6) [0x93da66]
./googleearth-bin [0x806bad1]




We apologize for the inconvenience, but Google Earth has crashed.
This is a bug in the program, and should never happen under normal
circumstances. A bug report and debugging data are now being written
to this text file:

/home/zenarcher/.googleearth/crashlogs/crashlog-FFCB63BE.txt

This bug report will be sent to Google automatically next time you run
Google Earth. Its data, which contains no personal information, will help
us correct problems without bothering you further. If you would rather
this info not be transmitted, please delete the above file before running
the program again. If you want bug reports to NEVER be sent, remove the
above 'crashlogs' directory's read/write permissions.


Anyone have any ideas here?

Thanks,
zenarcher

[phoenixpb]

I have downloaded GoogleEarthLinux.bin from http://earth.google.com/intl/en/download-earth.html

just type sh GoogleEarthLinux.bin

works perfectly here

[zenarcher]

I tried that first, downloading from GoogleEarth, but had no luck with that, either, for some reason. I tried with this F11 preview and the previous test release and no luck with either. I don't know what the problem is that I'm having for sure.

Cheers,
zenarcher

[zenarcher]

Okay, I just don't understand my problem with GoogleEarth. I just did a fresh install and all the available updates for Fedora 11 (64 bit) on 20 May. I'll try to explain exactly what I've done and maybe someone can offer some assistance.

The very first thing I do after a fresh install is disable SELinux, so I'm sure that's not the problem.

I've installed GoogleEarth many, many times in many different distros without an issue, so I've followed the usual procedure but I've gotten nowhere.

First I tried downloading GoogleEarth from their website, saving the .bin file to the Desktop. From a terminal, I ran sh GoogleEarth......bin and the install proceeds normally, including creating a GoogleEarth icon on the desktop. When I click on that icon, the GoogleEarth splash screen opens....then closes. nothing more.

I then tried leigh's method, as shown in an earlier post. Again, the install appears to go fine, but I get the same result as with the install from the GoogleEarth website.

From Dolphin, I see the google-earth folder in Home, with what appears to be all usual files. If I open a terminal and type googleearth or googleearth.bin, I only get "Command not found." If I enter uninstall, I get the same message, although I see the uninstall command in the google-earth folder.

Some time back, I know there was an issue with the libcrypto file in GoogleEarth and I had to rename it as .bak, then GoogleEarth would run fine. Until doing so, I would only see the splash screen, then GoogleEarth would close, just as I get now. I tried renaming libcrypto, but that did not correct the problem.

The frustrating part is that I seem to be the only one I've found with this problem, since others say they followed the same procedure and GoogleEarth works perfectly. I'm at a complete loss and figure I must be doing something wrong, but I don't know what. Any help in figuring out what and why I can't seem to get GoogleEarth to work would really be appreciated.

Thanks,
zenarcher

[Lebenskuenstler]

There is a HowTo in Gernan Language:

http://fedorablog.de/archives/569-Up...Fedora-11.html

I did not test it, due I do not use GoogleEarth.

If you need some translation, please feel free to ask. The HowTo states all commands, which are needed.

Good luck.

LK

[zenarcher]

Okay, I tried the instructions from the German page and did the install. When I attempt to start GoogleEarth from the icon on the desktop, I still just get the splash screen and nothing else. Here's what I get when I try to run GoogleEarth from a terminal:

[zenarcher@localhost google-earth]$ sh googleearth
Google Earth has caught signal 11.

Stacktrace from glibc:
./googleearth-bin [0x806c343]
./googleearth-bin [0x806c8b6]
[0xa54400]
/usr/lib/libGL.so.1(glXMakeCurrentReadSGI+0x146) [0x6115909]
/usr/lib/libGL.so.1(glXMakeCurrent+0x16) [0x6115b7c]
/home/zenarcher/google-earth/libIGGfx.so(_ZN3Gap3Gfx18igOglVisualContext19inter nalMakeCurrentEv+0x33) [0x15d5f33]
/home/zenarcher/google-earth/libIGGfx.so(_ZN3Gap3Gfx18igOglVisualContext21inter nalCreateContextEv+0x1aa) [0x15d614a]
/home/zenarcher/google-earth/libIGGfx.so(_ZN3Gap3Gfx18igOglVisualContext4openEv +0x96) [0x15f8e26]
/home/zenarcher/google-earth/libevll.so(_ZN5earth4evll13VisualContext11OpenCont extEN3Gap3Gfx25igRenderDestinationFormatERKNS0_8In itInfoE+0x101) [0x341fa01]
/home/zenarcher/google-earth/libevll.so(_ZN5earth4evll13VisualContext4initERKNS 0_8InitInfoE+0x22d) [0x342ab6d]
/home/zenarcher/google-earth/libevll.so(_ZN5earth4evll17RenderContextImpl4initE RKNS0_8InitInfoE+0x87) [0x32f37a7]
./librender.so(_ZN12RenderWidget6SetApiEPN5earth4evl l3APIE+0x47) [0x14c7e67]
./librender.so(_ZN5earth6render12RenderWindow12creat eWidgetEv+0xae) [0x14a792e]
./libgoogleearth_lib.so(_ZN5earth6client12ModuleWidg et9showEventEP10QShowEvent+0x8e) [0x36314e]
./libQtGui.so.4(_ZN7QWidget5eventEP6QEvent+0x7cf) [0xcea15f]
./libQtGui.so.4(_ZN19QApplicationPrivate13notify_hel perEP7QObjectP6QEvent+0xa8) [0xca8130]
./libQtGui.so.4(_ZN12QApplication6notifyEP7QObjectP6 QEvent+0x122) [0xcaf916]
./libQtCore.so.4(_ZN16QCoreApplication14notifyIntern alEP7QObjectP6QEvent+0x9a) [0x5602f2]
./libQtGui.so.4(_ZN14QWidgetPrivate11show_helperEv+0 x11f) [0xcecfc3]
./libQtGui.so.4(_ZN14QWidgetPrivate14show_recursiveE v+0x7b) [0xcecd0f]
./libQtGui.so.4(_ZN14QWidgetPrivate12showChildrenEb+ 0x15c) [0xcece98]
./libQtGui.so.4(_ZN14QWidgetPrivate11show_helperEv+0 x42) [0xcecee6]
./libQtGui.so.4(_ZN7QWidget10setVisibleEb+0x3bb) [0xced4bb]
./libQtGui.so.4(_ZN14QWidgetPrivate12showChildrenEb+ 0x146) [0xcece82]
./libQtGui.so.4(_ZN14QWidgetPrivate11show_helperEv+0 x42) [0xcecee6]
./libQtGui.so.4(_ZN14QWidgetPrivate14show_recursiveE v+0x7b) [0xcecd0f]
./libQtGui.so.4(_ZN14QWidgetPrivate12showChildrenEb+ 0x15c) [0xcece98]
./libQtGui.so.4(_ZN14QWidgetPrivate11show_helperEv+0 x42) [0xcecee6]
./libQtGui.so.4(_ZN7QWidget10setVisibleEb+0x3bb) [0xced4bb]
./libQtGui.so.4(_ZN14QWidgetPrivate12showChildrenEb+ 0x146) [0xcece82]
./libQtGui.so.4(_ZN14QWidgetPrivate11show_helperEv+0 x42) [0xcecee6]
./libQtGui.so.4(_ZN7QWidget10setVisibleEb+0x3bb) [0xced4bb]
./libQtGui.so.4(_ZN14QWidgetPrivate12showChildrenEb+ 0x146) [0xcece82]
./libQtGui.so.4(_ZN14QWidgetPrivate11show_helperEv+0 x42) [0xcecee6]
./libQtGui.so.4(_ZN7QWidget10setVisibleEb+0x3bb) [0xced4bb]
./libQtGui.so.4(_ZN14QWidgetPrivate12showChildrenEb+ 0x146) [0xcece82]
./libQtGui.so.4(_ZN14QWidgetPrivate11show_helperEv+0 x42) [0xcecee6]
./libQtGui.so.4(_ZN7QWidget10setVisibleEb+0x3bb) [0xced4bb]
./libQtGui.so.4(_ZN14QWidgetPrivate12showChildrenEb+ 0x146) [0xcece82]
./libQtGui.so.4(_ZN14QWidgetPrivate11show_helperEv+0 x42) [0xcecee6]
./libQtGui.so.4(_ZN7QWidget10setVisibleEb+0x3bb) [0xced4bb]
./libQtGui.so.4(_ZN7QWidget10showNormalEv+0x4a) [0xce280e]
./libgoogleearth_lib.so(_ZN10MainWindow18readScreens izeInfoEv+0xbfa) [0x33495a]
./libgoogleearth_lib.so(_ZN5earth6client11Applicatio n12SetupMainWinERK7QStringb+0x1f0) [0x39d890]
./libgoogleearth_lib.so(_ZN5earth6client11Applicatio n3runEv+0x313) [0x39e5f3]
./googleearth-bin(main+0x286) [0x806cde6]
/lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xe6) [0x815a66]
./googleearth-bin [0x806bad1]




We apologize for the inconvenience, but Google Earth has crashed.
This is a bug in the program, and should never happen under normal
circumstances. A bug report and debugging data are now being written
to this text file:

/home/zenarcher/.googleearth/crashlogs/crashlog-F1DC640A.txt

This bug report will be sent to Google automatically next time you run
Google Earth. Its data, which contains no personal information, will help
us correct problems without bothering you further. If you would rather
this info not be transmitted, please delete the above file before running
the program again. If you want bug reports to NEVER be sent, remove the
above 'crashlogs' directory's read/write permissions.

Any ideas how to fix the problem?

Thanks,
zenarcher

[zenarcher]

The solution seems to have been to reinstall Kubuntu 9.04 or Kubuntu 9.10 Alpha 1. Works perfectly in both.

Cheers,
zenarcher

[wangmaster]

whoa whoa whoa. Back up. Your solution to the problem is to install a different distribution? Hello hammer, I have some nails here.

your signature shows you have nvidia graphics. the stack trace shows it using /usr/lib/libGL.so.1 and you're running x86_64. If you're using the binary proprietary drivers from nvidia, the problem is most likely that you failed to install the 32-bit libGL libraries. Assuming rpmfusion repositories that would be:
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs-180.51-1.fc11.i586

[newiLuvatar]

i just tried to install the google earth rpm from leigh...
i got this error message:

# yum --nogpgcheck install googleearth-5.0.11729.1014-1.fc11.i586.rpm
Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit
Setting up Install Process
Examining googleearth-5.0.11729.1014-1.fc11.i586.rpm: googleearth-5.0.11729.1014-1.fc11.i586
Marking googleearth-5.0.11729.1014-1.fc11.i586.rpm to be installed
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package googleearth.i586 0:5.0.11729.1014-1.fc11 set to be updated
--> Finished Dependency Resolution

Dependencies Resolved

================================================================================
 Package
   Arch Version                Repository                                  Size
================================================================================
Installing:
 googleearth
   i586 5.0.11729.1014-1.fc11  googleearth-5.0.11729.1014-1.fc11.i586.rpm 3.7 k

Transaction Summary
================================================================================
Install      1 Package(s)         
Update       0 Package(s)         
Remove       0 Package(s)         

Total size: 3.7 k
Is this ok [y/N]: y
Downloading Packages:
Running rpm_check_debug
Running Transaction Test
Finished Transaction Test
Transaction Test Succeeded
Running Transaction
  Installing     : googleearth                                              1/1 
Note that by downloading Google Earth you indicate your acceptance of
the EULA, available from http://earth.google.com/download-earth.html
Downloading from http://dl.google.com/earth/client/current/GoogleEarthLinux.bin:
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
100 24.4M  100 24.4M    0     0   650k      0  0:00:38  0:00:38 --:--:--  653k
Error: Unable to download Google Earth due to this package being too old.
       You need to contact plf-discuss@zarb.org or
       report a bug in the PLF bugzilla at http://plf.zarb.org/bugzilla/
       so that the package will be updated. Thank you.
Non-fatal POSTIN scriptlet failure in rpm package googleearth-5.0.11729.1014-1.fc11.i586
warning: %post(googleearth-5.0.11729.1014-1.fc11.i586) scriptlet failed, exit status 1

Installed:
  googleearth.i586 0:5.0.11729.1014-1.fc11                                      

Complete!

but google earth does not get installed...
am i doing something wrong?

Edit: i assume this happens because there is a newer build (5.0.11733.9347) on the google servers

[newiLuvatar]

ok, so I downloaded the file from
http://dl.google.com/earth/client/cu...EarthLinux.bin
I then got the same stack as zenarcher, but, as wangmaster said, installation of the 32bit nvidia libs solved it. now i only have to figure how to get rid of that crappy font...