Intrepid with KDE 4.2 -- Google Earth 5 shows logo and tip of the day and exits

[jmarxer]

Intrepid with KDE 4.2 -- Google Earth 5 shows logo and tip of the day and exits immediately.

[tomp01]

Re: Intrepid with KDE 4.2 -- Google Earth 5 shows logo and tip of the day and exits

Intrepid with KDE 4.2 -- Google Earth 5 shows logo and tip of the day and exits immediately.

Google Earth from the Medibuntu repository is still on version 4, maybe you should remove version 5, add Medibuntu to Adept sources and reinstall. You will probably need to disable Desktop Effects as well.

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Medibuntu

[tomp01]

Re: Intrepid with KDE 4.2 -- Google Earth 5 shows logo and tip of the day and exits

Intrepid with KDE 4.2 -- Google Earth 5 shows logo and tip of the day and exits immediately.

Have you managed to sort the problem out?

[cleb]

Re: Intrepid with KDE 4.2 -- Google Earth 5 shows logo and tip of the day and exits

Intrepid with KDE 4.2 -- Google Earth 5 shows logo and tip of the day and exits immediately.

I just solved the same problem today. You have to rename libcrypto.so.0.9.8 in the directory where google earth is installed to something like libcrypto.so.0.9.8.bak

[dtr]

Re: Intrepid with KDE 4.2 -- Google Earth 5 shows logo and tip of the day and exits

Hey, thanks. Worked for me too.

[daddy4count]

Re: Intrepid with KDE 4.2 -- Google Earth 5 shows logo and tip of the day and exits

Mark this baby solved, that fixed mine too!!!

[shokoup]

Re: Intrepid with KDE 4.2 -- Google Earth 5 shows logo and tip of the day and exits

thank u very much, great advice

[reidun]

Re: Intrepid with KDE 4.2 -- Google Earth 5 shows logo and tip of the day and exits

Will this work for me too? I have Hardy Heron with Google Earth 4.3.

Thanks,
Reidun

[GreyGeek]

Re: Intrepid with KDE 4.2 -- Google Earth 5 shows logo and tip of the day and exits

This has been a reoccurring problem for 4 or 5 years on about every distro I've used over that period.

[reidun]

Re: Intrepid with KDE 4.2 -- Google Earth 5 shows logo and tip of the day and exits

I tried to rename it, but it says "Rename failed." Do I have to be logged in as administrator or something? How would I do that? As you probably can tell I'm a newbie to Linux and Kubuntu, but I really like it a lot. No more Windows for me!

Thanks!

[cleb]

Re: Intrepid with KDE 4.2 -- Google Earth 5 shows logo and tip of the day and exits

I tried to rename it, but it says "Rename failed." Do I have to be logged in as administrator or something? How would I do that? As you probably can tell I'm a newbie to Linux and Kubuntu, but I really like it a lot. No more Windows for me!

Thanks!

It is possible that it requires root rights. In that case, you have many options:
If you have Krusader installed, it gives you an option to start as root,
Or you can open the Konsole, start the Midnight Commander with root rights (sudo mc) and rename it from there.
Or you can simply open the Konsole, go to the directory where it is installed and type sudo mv oldname newname

[reidun]

Re: Intrepid with KDE 4.2 -- Google Earth 5 shows logo and tip of the day and exits

Thanks, Cleb, but I need more help! Since I don't know if I have Krusader installed, or what Midnight Commander is, I tried your last option, which sounded simple enough. However...

I typed:

Root/usr/lib/googleearth sudo mv libcrypto.so.0.9.8 libcrypto.so.0.9.8.bak

It said:

bash: Root/usr/lib/googleearth: No such file or directory

Root/usr/lib/googleearth is the correct directory, but is there something else I should type before Root? Or am I missing something else?

[cleb]

Re: Intrepid with KDE 4.2 -- Google Earth 5 shows logo and tip of the day and exits

Thanks, Cleb, but I need more help! Since I don't know if I have Krusader installed, or what Midnight Commander is, I tried your last option, which sounded simple enough. However...

I typed:

Root/usr/lib/googleearth sudo mv libcrypto.so.0.9.8 libcrypto.so.0.9.8.bak

It said:

bash: Root/usr/lib/googleearth: No such file or directory

Root/usr/lib/googleearth is the correct directory, but is there something else I should type before Root? Or am I missing something else?

ok, so:
cd /usr/lib/googleearth
and then
sudo mv libcrypto.so.0.9.8 libcrypto.so.0.9.8.bak

Just so you know what it does: cd changes the directory , sudo gives you administrator rights and mv is the rename command.

Krusader is something like Total Commander in windows, you can install it by typing sudo apt-get install krusader in the konsole.
Midnight commander is like the good old Norton Commander you might remember from the DOS times.

[flarson]

Re: Intrepid with KDE 4.2 -- Google Earth 5 shows logo and tip of the day and exits

What you are looking for is "cd", and change directory.
cd /usr/lib/googleearth
is probably what you want.

[reidun]

Re: Intrepid with KDE 4.2 -- Google Earth 5 shows logo and tip of the day and exits

Ok, thanks! I got the name change to work now. Thanks for the explanation of the commands. That is very helpful.

But I still have a problem. Now GoogleEarth doesn't start at all. It only shows the bouncing icon and the tab at the bottom, but then those both go away and nothing happens.

I changed the name of the libcrypto.so.0.9.8 file that is inside the GoogleEarth folder, but I noticed there is also a file by the same name in the lib folder where the GoogleEarth folder is. Did I change the wrong one?