I have a fresh install of Fedora 16, and find myself wishing I could run Google Earth. When I go to the google earth website, I find I can download RPM packages of either an i386 or a x86_64 version of Google Earth 6. When I try to install the x86_64 package I get:
rpm -Uvh google-earth-stable_current_x86_64.rpm error: Failed dependencies: lsb >= 3.2 is needed by google-earth-stable-6.1.0.5001-0.x86_64So, I do yum install lsb, and get the following packages.
================================================================================ Package Arch Version Repository Size ================================================================================ Installing: redhat-lsb x86_64 4.0-7.1.fc16 updates 25 k Installing for dependencies: pax x86_64 3.4-12.fc16 fedora 69 k perl-Class-ISA noarch 0.36-1005.fc16 fedora 8.3 k perl-Locale-Codes noarch 3.20-1.fc16 updates 308 k Transaction Summary ================================================================================ Install 4 PackagesAfter this, I can install the google-earth package, and it puts an executable into /usr/bin/google-earth and spits out the message:
Redirecting to /bin/systemctl start atd.serviceHowever, when I try to run it I get:
/usr/bin/google-earth: ./googleearth-bin: /lib/ld-lsb.so.3: bad ELF interpreter: No such file or directoryThe thing to do (apparently) is to install the 32 bit lsb packages. And maybe you could figure this out by the fact that lib64 is not mentioned in the "file not found" message mentioned above, but ultimately the google team needs to get the RPM package dependencies set up properly.
====================================================================================================================================================================== Package Arch Version Repository Size ====================================================================================================================================================================== Installing: redhat-lsb i686 4.0-7.1.fc16 updates 25 k Installing for dependencies: cracklib i686 2.8.18-2.fc15 fedora 71 k db4 i686 4.8.30-3.fc15 fedora 615 k pam i686 1.1.5-1.fc16 updates 650 k Transaction Summary ====================================================================================================================================================================== Install 4 PackagesAfter this google earth seems to start up just fine.But it locks up my machine
The first time I tryed to run it, it ran for perhaps 30 seconds, then locked up my machine. I did several zooms, which it seemed to be handling properly, then no response. Then I discovered that though I could move the mouse around, nothing was responding. Not just google earth either, I could not switch desktops, nothing seemed to be responding to mouse or keyboard events. I was able to use another machine on the network, ping my machine, and log in via ssh. I then killed several google earth processes, but that did no good whatsoever. I finally got impatient and rebooted my machine. Without the network access I would have had to resort to the reset button.After the reboot, I nervously restarted google earth again, and used Help and About to get the following information:
Google Earth version 6.1.0.5001 built 10-17-2011 Rendering via OpenGL and using the nouveau driverThen when I use File-->Exit, I got the following along with a long traceback:(/u1/tom) cholla $ google-earth *** glibc detected *** ./googleearth-bin: munmap_chunk(): invalid pointer: 0xf76I am tempted to change to the nvidia driver, but that is much more work than I want to deal with right now - and it is not clear that will yield any benefit (i.e. I am not sure that will get google earth running).
Have any comments? Questions? Drop me a line!Adventures in Computing / tom@mmto.org