SOLVED Problems with googleearth package

[David Curtis]

Joep L. Blom wrote:
> David Curtis schreef:
>> Vinson Carrethers wrote:
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>>> stan wrote:
>>>> On Sat, Sep 06, 2008 at 01:06:39PM -0600, Vinson Carrethers wrote:
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>>>>> David Curtis wrote:
>>>>>> stan wrote:
>>>>>>> On Sat, Sep 06, 2008 at 09:43:41AM -0600, Vinson Carrethers wrote:
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>>>>>>>> stan wrote:
>>>>>>>>> On Sat, Sep 06, 2008 at 10:38:42AM -0400, Brian McKee wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> On Sat, Sep 6, 2008 at 10:14 AM, stan <stanb at panix.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>> I am trying to get googleearth working on a machine that has the latest
>>>>>>>>>>> upgradees installed. I did an apt-get install of the googleearth package,
>>>>>>>>>>> and ran it. It complained about the version of googleearth it downloaded,
>>>>>>>>>>> but I was able to continue by using the --force option. During the build I
>>>>>>>>>>> got some messages indicating that I might need to do something with
>>>>>>>>>>> LD_LIBRARY_PATH, but I assumed thta this would get taken care of.
>>>>>>>>>> I'm confused - apt-get install would install it, not build it - and if
>>>>>>>>>> you are using the standard repositories you shouldn't have to --force
>>>>>>>>>> anything.  What was the complaint about the version?  Can you expand
>>>>>>>>>> on what you actually did here?
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> This is the googleearth package builder. It downloads, and builds a Debian
>>>>>>>>> package for googleearth. Is there a better way to do this?
>>>>>>>> Stan, It wouldn't hurt to know what version Ubuntu and Google Earth you are
>>>>>>>> dealing with.
>>>>>>>> I used synaptic in 8.04 to download and install Google Earth 4.2 and it
>>>>>>>> functions well.
>>>>>>>> Is there some reason you felt the need to be at the command line level?
>>>>>>> synaptic shows both google earth, and the google earth package builder
>>>>>>> installed.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Am I missing somehting here? Is there some way to install google earth that
>>>>>>> does not involve the package builder package?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> Sounds like you don't have the medibuntu repo in your sources.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Just follow the instructions:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Medibuntu
>>>>>>
>>>>>> HTH
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Dave
>>>>>>
>>>>> Stan,  I need to know more about your equipment, and the other requests for
>>>>> information I made.  I just went to my T-30 Thinkpad and installed 4.2, and then
>>>>> 4.3 through synaptic and then Googles program through their installer.  All of
>>>>> them cause the Thinkpad to logout right after the GoogleEarth start screen.  So
>>>>> in my area, different machines give different results.  I am troubleshooting my
>>>>> thinkpad while I wait for your information.  No info from you leaves no answers.
>>>> I got it working following the directions on
>>>> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Medibuntu as sugested above. The only
>>>> trick wwas that there were 2 versions of googleearth offered in that
>>>> reposiistory, and the default googlearth installed the 4.2 version which
>>>> did not work well for me, but install the 4.3 version seems to have gotten
>>>> it workingquite well. This is on a 8.04 system with the latest fixes.
>>>>
>>>> HTH
>>>>
>>> So its solved!.... ?
>>>
>> FYI, my problem is the opposite, 4.2 works well but 4.3 crashes on start 
>> up. Go figure.
>>
>> Dave
>>
> Guys,
> I just installed google-earth 4.3 using synaptic and I have exactly the 
> same problem as Vinson.
> System: AMD64:  2.6.24-19-generic #1 SMP Wed Aug 20 17:53:40 UTC 2008 
> x86_64 GNU/Linux sufficient memory and diskspace.
> I wonder if it is a 64-bit problem.
> Joep
> 
> 
Do you have a 3D accelerated video card and the driver to support it?

My problem with 4.3 is that my really old CPU has no SSE2 [1] support.
What's the output of 'cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep sse2'? (pretty sure all 
64 bit processors support it though)

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SSE2