GoogleEarth no joy in Tahr

[GreyGeek]

I installed make-googleearth-package and ran it.

.....
/linux/xdg/xdg-desktop-icon
./linux/xdg/xdg-mime
./googleearth-data.tar
./postinstall.sh
./bin/
./bin/googleearth
./preuninstall.sh
Package: googleearth
Version: 6.0.3.2197+1.1.0-1
Section: non-free/science
Priority: optional
Maintainer:  <jerry@jerry-Aspire-V3-771>
Architecture: amd64
Depends: fonts-liberation, libfreeimage3, lsb-core, libqtcore4, libgl1-mesa-glx, libglu1-mesa , libcurl3:i386, libsm6:i386, libfontconfig1:i386, libxt6:i386, libxrender1:i386, libxext6:i386, libgl1-mesa-glx:i386, libgl1-mesa-dri:i386
Suggests: lib32nss-mdns|libnss-mdns:i386, libgl1-nvidia-glx:i386, libgl1-fglrx-glx:i386
Description: Google Earth, a 3D map/planet viewer
 Package built with googleearth-package.
dpkg-deb: building package `googleearth' in `./googleearth_6.0.3.2197+1.1.0-1_amd64.deb'.

Success!
You can now install the package with e.g:

sudo dpkg -i googleearth_6.0.3.2197+1.1.0-1_amd64.deb

:~$ sudo dpkg -i googleearth_6.0.3.2197+1.1.0-1_amd64.deb

Selecting previously unselected package googleearth.
(Reading database ... 282301 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack googleearth_6.0.3.2197+1.1.0-1_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking googleearth (6.0.3.2197+1.1.0-1) ...
dpkg: [COLOR=#ff0000]dependency problems prevent configuration of googleearth[/COLOR]:
 googleearth depends on libfreeimage3; however:
  Package libfreeimage3 is not installed.
 googleearth depends on lsb-core; however:
  Package lsb-core is not installed.
 googleearth depends on libcurl3:i386; however:

dpkg: [COLOR=#ff0000]error[/COLOR] processing package googleearth (--install):
 [COLOR=#ff0000]dependency problems - leaving unconfigured[/COLOR]
Processing triggers for mime-support (3.54ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for menu (2.1.46ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.22-1ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for shared-mime-info (1.2-0ubuntu2) ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
 googleearth
:~$

And, with the building errors and installation errors here is what happens:
Running a a user:

:~$ googleearth 
/usr/bin/googleearth: 14: /usr/bin/googleearth:[COLOR=#ff0000] /usr/lib/googleearth/googleearth-bin: not found[/COLOR]

Running as root:

:~$ sudo googleearth 
[sudo] password for jerry: 
/usr/bin/googleearth: 14: /usr/bin/googleearth: /usr/lib/googleearth/googleearth-bin: not found

Locating the supposedly missing files:

:~$ sudo  updatedb
:~$ [B]locate googleearth[/B] | less
:~$ /usr/bin/googleearth 
/usr/bin/googleearth: 14: /usr/bin/googleearth: /usr/lib/googleearth/[B]googleearth-bin: not found[/B]
:~$[B] locate googleearth-bin[/B]
/usr/lib/googleearth/googleearth-bin

So, it is there.
Try to run it directly:

:~$ sudo /usr/lib/googleearth/googleearth-bin 
sudo: unable to execute /usr/lib/googleearth/googleearth-bin: No such file or directory

But, it is there!

:~$ [B]vdir /usr/lib/googleearth/[/B]
total 77696
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    73318 May 17  2011 drivers.ini
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root     5452 May 17  2011 [B]googleearth-bin[/B]
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    18011 May 17  2011 gpl.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  1493283 May 17  2011 gpsbabel

Not sure I can trust a package that didn't install itself properly to uninstall itself, so, there is one thing left to do:

sudo dpkg -P googleearth

[claydoh]

Likely this script , as it last dates to 10-2013, is not set up properly for the latest 14.04 in terms of deps.


I dunno why this is even necessary, as simply installing the 32-bit Ubuntu/debian package Just Works (for me, of course ymmv) on both my Saucy pc and my Trusty laptop.

[claydoh]

[Snowhog]

Do you ever experience any crashes running the 32-bit version on your 64-bit Kubuntu?

[claydoh]

Nope. Google Earth is a 32 bit binary. The 64 bit deb is simply the 32 bit package with the ia32 libs as a dependency. Which is of course not available in recent ubuntu versions, hence the broken package problem, and the general confusion overall.

I admit I don't often give it a real workout but I've never had it crash on me before. (intel graphics from 2008)

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[GreyGeek]

I don't have the ia32libs installed because I've been avoiding the necessity. When I last used the i386 librarie to install GoogleEarth on 12.04 last summer it was very unstable and the using the search mode resulted in an error "illegal http format", or something like that, and the second time the search crashed the app.

[claydoh]

In 13 .10 and up, you don't need or use the now non existent ia32 libs.

You just install the 32 bit package, and the specific 32bit deps are installed, just as if it were native, instead of installing almost every 32 bit library that is available (most of them unneeded) ,as the ia32-libs did.

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[claydoh]

I can't refer to crashes as I don't have any at the moment .

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[GreyGeek]

In 13 .10 and up, you don't need or use the now non existent ia32 libs.

You just install the 32 bit package, and the specific 32bit deps are installed, just as if it were native, instead of installing almost every 32 bit library that is available (most of them unneeded) ,as the ia32-libs did.

I installed the 32bit deb package. It asked to install an additional 24 packages, which I allowed. However, running it produced a different error:

googleearth-bin: error while loading shared libraries: libGLU.so.1

Since the libGLU.so.1 was in the globally visible /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu directory there must be a compatibility problem. I copied a link (libGLU.so.1 to libGLU.so.3.1) into /opt/google/earth/free/ and tried it again.

$ google-earth
./googleearth-bin: error while loading shared libraries: libGLU.so.1: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64

So, it is apparently not loading all the necessary 32bit compatible libraries. Having two identical source links targeting different destination links isn't possible.

[claydoh]

I installed the 32bit deb package. It asked to install an additional 24 packages, which I allowed. However, running it produced a different error:


Since the libGLU.so.1 was in the globally visible /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu directory there must be a compatibility problem. I copied a link (libGLU.so.1 to libGLU.so.3.1) into /opt/google/earth/free/ and tried it again.

$ google-earth
./googleearth-bin: error while loading shared libraries: libGLU.so.1: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64

So, it is apparently not loading all the necessary 32bit compatible libraries. Having two identical source links targeting different destination links isn't possible.

Could be, I could have the needed 32 bit lib you are missing from something else, perhaps.
Installing the 32 bit libGLU.so will likely be the one you want to install, as GE is 32 bit....

You can filter by architecture in muon and find the 32 bit libglu1-mesa,
or to use apt:

sudo apt-get install [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Ubuntu Mono]libglu1-mesa[B]:i386[/B][/FONT][/COLOR]

[GreyGeek]

No joy.

Major Version 7
Minor Version 1
Build Number 0002
Build Date Oct  7 2013
Build Time 12:17:02
OS Type 3
OS Major Version 3
OS Minor Version 13
OS Build Version 0
OS Patch Version 0
Crash Signal 6
Crash Time 1395629097
Up Time 1.15488

Stacktrace from glibc:
./libgoogleearth_free.so(+0x1e8d0b)[0xf735dd0b]
./libgoogleearth_free.so(+0x1e8f41)[0xf735df41]
[0xf7733400]