[solved] Re: Google earth install

[Al Black]

Hey David, all.

On Fri, 2009-04-10 at 04:44 -0400, David Curtis wrote:
> 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. 

That was precisely the problem and the solution.  Don't seem to be
having the fonts problems.

Thanks David.

al