Google earth install

[Karl F. Larsen]

Jared Greenwald wrote:
> You should enable the google apt repos. This page will instruct you on
> how to accomplish that.  Also note that although there is only
> "stable" listed on this page, that there is also a "testing" repo...
>
> http://www.google.com/linuxrepositories/apt.html
>
> On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 1:51 AM, 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.
>>
>> Thanks in advance.
>> al
>>
>>
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>
>   
    I did all of this at the web page and did apt-get both Google 
applications. Picasa is working very well and I think google-earth is 
good too, but I have zero idea how to use it :-)


Karl


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