GoogleEarthLinux Problem...

[Chris Mohler]

On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 10:18 AM, Alexandra Zaharia <f0rg3r at gmail.com> wrote:
[...]
>
> I had this same problem (not on Jaunty though). Apparently, their
> version of libcrypto is somewhat 'b0rken' so the advice I got -- and
> it worked for me -- was to go to the dir where google-earth is
> installed and rename the faulty library.
>
> $ cd /home/user/google-earth
> $ mv mv libcrypto.so.0.9.8 libcrypto.so.0.9.8.hold
>
> This way, it will use the system's libcrypto.

Deleting their libcrypto is OK too.

If you installed GE system-wide (as root), then your ~/.googleearth
directory might need to be renamed (or deleted) as well - the
permissions are likely wrong.

Chris