Google Earth

[LinuxRocks]

Re: Google Earth

Heh!
Just found out Google Earth is no longer working for me...

I uninstalled it, downloaded the latest version and reinstalled, still no joy...

Just download it from Google.com. That version seems to work. I am using the 64bit version.

Hope this helps!
Joe

[LinuxRocks]

Re: Google Earth

Opps... I saw that you just downloaded the new version...

Sorry!

Not sure why its not working. I have been using it without issue.

Joe

[vinnywright]

Re: Google Earth

mine is still working ...although with some strange looking font ...ver. 6.0.3.2197-r0 on a 11.04 install net upgraded to 11.10
3.0.0-12-generic KDE-4.7.2 fully updated as of today with dist-upgrade.

VINNY

[vinnywright]

Re: Google Earth

The error I get is:

teunis@TECRA-S5-64b:~$ /opt/google/earth/free/google-earth %f
/opt/google/earth/free/google-earth: 43: ./googleearth-bin: not found

googleearth-bin is most certainly present and it has it's executable bit set.

? mine launches striate away like that with no error's ?

VINNY

[NoWorries]

Re: Google Earth

Thanks for letting me know about the new version. I removed the one I had and downloaded the latest. I installed it simply by clicking on the deb package and letting the installer do the work rather than use apt-get. This new version (6.1.0.5001) is also working for me and the listing of the files in the directory are shown in the graphic.

For those who are having trouble with Google Earth, I am wondering what the output is when the console is used to launch it by entering

~>google-earth

[NoWorries]

Re: Google Earth

teunis@TECRA-S5-64b:~$ google-earth
/usr/bin/google-earth: 43: ./googleearth-bin: not found
teunis@TECRA-S5-64b:~$

Yet googleearth-bin is clearly present (in /opt/google/earth/free/) and marked as executable...

I checked my system and found google-earth in /usr/bin and it points to googleearth in /opt/google/earth/free as shown in the graphic below. I hope you can resolve what is happening on your system.

[jeremy1701]

Re: Google Earth

which google-earth

will tell you the path

ls -la /usr/bin/google-earth

will tell you where the symlink points (this assume the first command gave you /usr/bin/). My google-earth actually points to /opt/google/earth/free/googleearth. There is also a googleearth-bin marked as executable in this same directory.

locate googleearth-bin

Will tell you where googleearth-bin is (note, you may need to use this command first):

sudo updatedb

[NoWorries]

Re: Google Earth

On my system I get the following from the commands you suggest:

~:~$ ls -la /usr/bin/google-earth
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 34 2011-10-17 21:43 /usr/bin/google-earth -> /opt/google/earth/free/googleearth
~:~$ locate googleearth-bin
/opt/google/earth/free/googleearth-bin

What I think is of more relevance is the Launcher Menu command used to start Google Earth. This is shown below in the graphic. As you can see, it is starting the google-earth shell script in the /opt/google/earth/free directory. I am wondering if your Launcher Menu is using the same command to start Google Earth.

[jeremy1701]

Re: Google Earth

But you have a googleearth-bin file in /opt/google/earth/free/ that's executable? Strange. What's the permissions on that?

ls -la /opt/google/earth/free/googleearth-bin

edit, let's just look at everything in that directory

ls -la /opt/google/earth/free/

[vinnywright]

Re: Google Earth

mine dose not match yours ....you are missing some lib's
look close

VINNY

vinny@Vinnys-HP-G62:~$ ls -la /opt/google/earth/free/
total 78920
drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 2011-11-03 19:14 .
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2011-11-03 19:14 ..
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 73693 2011-09-15 06:53 drivers.ini
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1112 2011-09-15 06:53 googleearth
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 34 2011-10-17 07:13 google-earth -> /opt/google/earth/free/googleearth
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5452 2011-10-17 07:13 googleearth-bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 390 2011-10-17 07:13 google-earth.desktop
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 18011 2011-09-15 06:53 gpl.txt
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 518164 2011-10-17 07:13 gpsbabel
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 983 2011-09-15 06:53 ImporterGlobalSettings.ini
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 5054 2011-09-15 06:53 ImporterUISettings.ini
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 2011-09-15 06:53 kh20
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2011-11-03 19:14 lang
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 17808 2011-10-17 07:13 libalchemyext.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 9564 2011-10-17 07:13 libapiloader.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 454096 2011-10-17 07:13 libauth.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 959864 2011-10-17 07:13 libbase.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 613388 2011-10-17 07:13 libbasicingest.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2977856 2011-10-17 07:13 libcollada.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 141872 2011-10-17 07:13 libcommon_gui.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 13620 2011-10-17 07:13 libcommon_platform.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 628184 2011-10-17 07:13 libcommon.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 289624 2011-10-17 07:13 libcommon_webbrowser.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 21884 2011-10-17 07:13 libcomponentframework.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 209928 2011-10-17 07:13 libcurl.so.4
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 8250292 2011-10-17 07:13 libevll.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 773736 2011-10-17 07:13 libflightsim.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 13768 2011-10-17 07:13 libfusioncommon.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 7465332 2011-10-17 07:13 libgdal.so.1
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 87660 2011-10-17 07:13 libgdata.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 306648 2011-10-17 07:13 libge_net.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3096308 2011-10-17 07:13 libgeobase.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 314212 2011-10-17 07:13 libgeobaseutils.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 517084 2011-10-17 07:13 libGLU.so.1
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 108024 2011-10-17 07:13 libgoogleapi.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 990192 2011-10-17 07:13 libgoogleearth_free.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 331036 2011-10-17 07:13 libgooglesearch.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 260712 2011-10-17 07:13 libgps.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 306348 2011-10-17 07:13 libgtest.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 415112 2011-10-17 07:13 libicudata.so.38
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1192980 2011-10-17 07:13 libicuuc.so.38
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 523696 2011-10-17 07:13 libIGAttrs.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 975760 2011-10-17 07:13 libIGCore.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 536912 2011-10-17 07:13 libIGExportCommon.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3745560 2011-10-17 07:13 libIGGfx.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 289952 2011-10-17 07:13 libIGMath.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 847000 2011-10-17 07:13 libIGOpt.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1071692 2011-10-17 07:13 libIGSg.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 158528 2011-10-17 07:13 libIGUtils.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 198804 2011-10-17 07:13 libinput_plugin.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1591056 2011-10-17 07:13 liblayer.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 87672 2011-10-17 07:13 liblayout.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 289652 2011-10-17 07:13 libmath.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 378152 2011-10-17 07:13 libmeasure.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 50492 2011-10-17 07:13 libmoduleframework.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1427140 2011-10-17 07:13 libnavigate.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 7552 2011-10-17 07:13 libnss_mdns4_minimal.so.2
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 34344 2011-10-17 07:13 libport.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5292 2011-10-17 07:13 libprofile.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 236896 2011-10-17 07:13 libproj.so.0
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3118100 2011-10-17 07:13 libQtCore.so.4
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 10914420 2011-10-17 07:13 libQtGui.so.4
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1226008 2011-10-17 07:13 libQtNetwork.so.4
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 16700420 2011-10-17 07:13 libQtWebKit.so.4
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 337916 2011-10-17 07:13 librender.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 46808 2011-10-17 07:13 libreporting.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 259728 2011-10-17 07:13 libsearchmodule.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 67156 2011-10-17 07:13 libsearch.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1154416 2011-10-17 07:13 libsgutil.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2011128 2011-10-17 07:13 libspatial.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 386700 2011-10-17 07:13 libviewsync.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 79672 2011-10-17 07:13 libwebbrowser.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 284568 2011-10-17 07:13 libwmsbase.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 17744 2011-10-17 07:13 libxsltransform.so
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 661 2011-09-15 06:53 PCOptimizations.ini
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2011-11-03 19:14 plugins
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 19149 2011-09-15 06:53 product_logo_128.png
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 1129 2011-09-15 06:53 product_logo_16.png
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 1754 2011-09-15 06:53 product_logo_22.png
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 1962 2011-09-15 06:53 product_logo_24.png
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 55464 2011-09-15 06:53 product_logo_256.png
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 2910 2011-09-15 06:53 product_logo_32.png
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 5730 2011-09-15 06:53 product_logo_32.xpm
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 4975 2011-09-15 06:53 product_logo_48.png
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 7325 2011-09-15 06:53 product_logo_64.png
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 7 2011-09-15 06:53 qt.conf
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2011-11-03 19:14 resources
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 12288 2011-11-03 19:14 shaders
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 31731 2011-10-17 07:13 xdg-mime
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 25115 2011-10-17 07:13 xdg-settings
vinny@Vinnys-HP-G62:~$

[vinnywright]

Re: Google Earth

@Teunis
K thanks for the heads up & sory it didn't help

VINNY

[skint]

Re: Google Earth

mine is still working ...although with some strange looking font ...ver. 6.0.3.2197-r0 on a 11.04 install net upgraded to 11.10
3.0.0-12-generic KDE-4.7.2 fully updated as of today with dist-upgrade.

VINNY

I had the fonts issue. They were huge! There's a very neat fix for it here which fixed the problem for me:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php...8&postcount=10