Google Earth on Intel AMD64

[Mario Vukelic]

On Wed, 2008-07-30 at 01:22 +0530, Chaman Singh Verma wrote:
> I was able to install Google Earth on Intel AMD64 ( Ubuntu OS), but
> there is some problem in the initialization. At the start I get the
> message:
> 
>                Google Earth Error:
> 
> Google earth detected an error while trying to authenticate. 
> Check:
> 
>  (1) your network connection ( can you get to www.google.com)
>  (2) firwall settings.
> 
> 
> Error code 29.
> 
> I pinged the www.google.com and it worked, I don't know what
> is missing now.

I don't use amd64, but here what a quick Google for amd64 AND "Google
earth" AND "your network connection"  turned up:
http://groups.google.de/group/earth-linux/browse_thread/thread/91b13b9c3a1ed061

In short: install lib32nss-mdns, there seems to be a bug in Ubuntu 8.04
on amd64 that leads to this package not being installed automatically
with Google Earth.