SOLVED Problems with googleearth package

[Joep L. Blom]

David Curtis schreef:

>> 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
> 
David,
I have sse2 enabled as seen in the /proc/cpuinfo"
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The problem must be someplace else. I will try to install google-earth 
from google and see if that is better (if they have a .deb version: I'm 
more familiar with rpm using fedora for I think 6 years).
Joep