Google earth install

[David Curtis]

On Thu, 09 Apr 2009 23:51:16 -0600
Al Black <al-black at telus.net> wrote:

> Hi gang,
> 
> Trying to install recent Google Earth from their website.  I'm running
> Intrepid 8.10 on a AMD 64 processor.
> 
> Here's the error reports from the term on install:
> 
> al at al-desktop:~/Desktop/google_earth$ sudo ./GoogleEarthLinux.bin 
> Verifying archive integrity... All good.
> Uncompressing Google Earth for GNU/Linux
> 5.0.11337.1968..............................................................
> loki_setup: Suspect size value for option option
> 
> /usr/lib/gio/modules/libgioremote-volume-monitor.so: wrong ELF class:
> ELFCLASS64
> Failed to load
> module: /usr/lib/gio/modules/libgioremote-volume-monitor.so
> /usr/lib/gio/modules/libgiogconf.so: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64
> Failed to load module: /usr/lib/gio/modules/libgiogconf.so
> /usr/lib/gio/modules/libgvfsdbus.so: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64
> Failed to load module: /usr/lib/gio/modules/libgvfsdbus.so
> loki_setup: Suspect size value for option option
> 
> loki_setup: Suspect size value for option option
> 
> Installing mimetypes...
> Installing desktop menu entries...
> Installing desktop icon...
> 
> When I try to run GE for the applications menu, the initial image starts
> up for a sec and disappears.
> 
> My guess is that I'm not the first person to run into this. I'll take a
> look tommorow about fixing this, but would appreciate direction on where
> to look, what to do etc.
> 

You can start GE in a terminal to get an error message. I'll make an assumption that it's the libcrypto issue. You can fix it yourself by renaming or removing ~/.googlearth/libcrypto.so.0.9.8. 

Or even better, install the package from the medibuntu repository[1], it includes a fix for this and a fix for some font issues.

If it's a different issue post the error message.

[1] https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Medibuntu
 
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David Curtis <dcurtis at uniserve.com>