Problem Installing Google Earth

[jackfruit501]

Is there a package google-earth-stable-7.1.1.1888-0.x86_32.rpm_FIXED.tar.xz available for 32 Bit architecture for F19? I would appreciate the link.

[Mr Wolf]

Is there a package google-earth-stable-7.1.1.1888-0.x86_32.rpm_FIXED.tar.xz available for 32 Bit architecture for F19? I would appreciate the link.

The fixed 32 bit RPM package of the latest version of Google Earth has been added to this post.

[jackfruit501]

Thanks for the link. Got google-earth installed and working.

[DougHuffman]

SOLVED! Installed. Running with trivial errors. Thank you very much.

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[vincecrue]

Thank you for posting the download links of google earth! I installed it and it runs great on Fedora 20 64 bit but I can't view any Panoramio images only a white box after clicking one of the images.
see http://picpaste.com/pics/no_panorami...1376402671.png
in the terminal I see only these messages starting google-earth:
$ google-earth
[0813/155308:ERROR:net_util.cc(2195)] Not implemented reached in bool net::HaveOnlyLoopbackAddresses()
[0813/155308:ERROR:nss_ocsp.cc(581)] No URLRequestContext for OCSP handler.
[0813/155308:ERROR:nss_ocsp.cc(581)] No URLRequestContext for OCSP handler.
[0813/155308:ERROR:nss_ocsp.cc(581)] No URLRequestContext for OCSP handler.
[0813/155309:ERROR:nss_ocsp.cc(581)] No URLRequestContext for OCSP handler.

but no specific ones when clicking Panoramio image links.
please help!
Thank you!

[DougHuffman]

The Panoramio bug is noted on the GE help forum.

[flyingfsck]

Hmm, years ago, I got fed up with Google's bad software practices and run Google Earth in an old Fedora 16 virtual machine.

[Mr Wolf]

Fixed RPM packages for the latest version of Google Earth, 7.1.2.2019, available here: http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showpost.php?p=1661662&postcount=42

[GoinEasy9]

Thank you Mr Wolf, updating to 7.1.2.2019 solved the crashes on my install. I'm running F19 x86_64 with updates testing enabled.

[jgsheppard]

Updating to 7.1.2.2019 has not solved my problem. The application runs for about 5 seconds and then crashes or it gives me the scrambled screen and totally unresponsive system to which I have referred previously.

If I run google-earth from the command prompt it sometimes runs for a bit longer. But mouse movement inevitably gives a scrambled screen.

I was able to get the following from the terminal screen:

[root@apollo ~]# google-earth
[1003/230419:ERROR:net_util.cc(2195)] Not implemented reached in bool net::HaveOnlyLoopbackAddresses()
[1003/230420:ERROR:nss_ocsp.cc(581)] No URLRequestContext for OCSP handler.
[1003/230420:ERROR:nss_ocsp.cc(581)] No URLRequestContext for OCSP handler.
[1003/230420:ERROR:nss_ocsp.cc(581)] No URLRequestContext for OCSP handler.
[1003/230420:ERROR:nss_ocsp.cc(581)] No URLRequestContext for OCSP handler.
[1003/230420:ERROR:nss_ocsp.cc(581)] No URLRequestContext for OCSP handler.
[1003/230420:ERROR:nss_ocsp.cc(581)] No URLRequestContext for OCSP handler.

and this ends in a scrambled screen.

[GoinEasy9]

Well, after working well after the update, when I exited and came back to it a few hours later, it was back to the same errors. <sigh>

Actually it comes up intermittently, after trying it a few times. Very unstable when it does come up. Same errors when starting in terminal as reported before.

BTW - It's also DOA on Debian Sid (siduction).

At least I have an F16 install on a laptop with an older version running. I do need it occasionally.

[Mr Wolf]

Updating to 7.1.2.2019 has not solved my problem.

Be aware that the only difference between the package provided by Google and the one fixed by me is the removal of the incompatibility which makes the former impossible to be installed. Every other issue isn't related to my modification.

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I was able to get the following from the terminal screen:

[root@apollo ~]# google-earth
[1003/230419:ERROR:net_util.cc(2195)] Not implemented reached in bool net::HaveOnlyLoopbackAddresses()
[1003/230420:ERROR:nss_ocsp.cc(581)] No URLRequestContext for OCSP handler.
[1003/230420:ERROR:nss_ocsp.cc(581)] No URLRequestContext for OCSP handler.
[1003/230420:ERROR:nss_ocsp.cc(581)] No URLRequestContext for OCSP handler.
[1003/230420:ERROR:nss_ocsp.cc(581)] No URLRequestContext for OCSP handler.
[1003/230420:ERROR:nss_ocsp.cc(581)] No URLRequestContext for OCSP handler.
[1003/230420:ERROR:nss_ocsp.cc(581)] No URLRequestContext for OCSP handler.

By the way, I get exactly the same messages, but Google Earth works perfectly on my system (at least, no crashes or slowdowns).

[GoinEasy9]

It's intermittent. The last five of six tries, it came up, but, disappeared after a few minutes while trying to do a search, or menu change, or, clicking on an icon on the map etc.. And that was from the panel icon. I just tried in terminal and it came up, with the errors, and, so far has remained stable. Heh, you never know.

BTW - I've read forum posts from a whole range of distros, all reporting similar problems, and, still haven't come across any solutions or patches. I guess it's up to Google.

[Mr Wolf]

Fixed RPM packages for the latest version of Google Earth, 7.1.2.2041, available here: http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showpost.php?p=1661662&postcount=42 (only for x86_64).

[amirpli]

Hello,
Several months ago I posted in productforums.google.com a solution for the frequent crashes and blank Panoramio frames for GE 7.1.1/7.1.2 x86_64 (and later added such a solution for several more Linux distributions), based on a recompilation of a newer version of the QT libraries.

Of course many users hesitate to install libraries that are not from official sources, so I found another solution. It works well on an up to date Fedora 19, using the native system libraries.

On Gnome the Panoramio pictures work perfectly. On KDE you can see them, but the frame misbehaves (but still usable using right click). This is a general problem with KDE on several distributions that I checked. On Xfce it is OK (checked on AltLinux 7 with recompiled QT libraries).

I didn't test this solution on 32bit installations. Maybe someone can test and post the results.

Here is how to do it:

1. You need the following up to date packages installed in your system:
1A. freeimage (currently freeimage-3.10.0-15.fc19.x86_64)
1B. qt-x11 (currently qt-x11-4.8.5-10.fc19.x86_64)
1C. qt (currently qt-4.8.5-10.fc19.x86_64)
1D. qtwebkit (currently qtwebkit-2.3.3-1.fc19.x86_64)
1E. qt-devel (temporarily for a shim library creation - can be removed afterwards)

2. Install GE's RPM after deleting the /usr/bin dependency using rpmrebuild (see message #27).

3. In GE's running directory /opt/google/earth/free, remove all the original libQt* libraries (4 ones).

4. If you try to run google-earth now, you will get:
./googleearth-bin: symbol lookup error: ./libbase.so: undefined symbol: _Z34QBasicAtomicInt_fetchAndAddOrderedPVii

The missing function can be generated as follows:

4A. Create a file (I called it baifaao.cpp) with this content:

/* amirpli 2013/11/28 */
#include <QtCore/QAtomicInt>
extern "C" {
	int _Z34QBasicAtomicInt_fetchAndAddOrderedPVii(QAtomicInt* a, int b) {
		return a->fetchAndAddOrdered(b);
	}
}

4B. Compile it and create the shim library with:

gcc -O3 -fPIC --shared baifaao.cpp -o baifaao.so

Put baifaao.so in /opt/google/earth/free .

5. In the file googleearth (in /opt/google/earth/free), add the following line before the line staring with LD_LIBRARY_PATH (note the \ at the end - there should be no blanks after it).

LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib64/libfreeimage.so.3:./baifaao.so \

Enjoy!