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2009

Google Earth on fedora 11-13 64 bit

Here the way I follow to install and make work Google Earth on Fedora 11 to 13 x86-64:

First download the linux version of Google Earth at : http://earth.google.fr/

open a terminal and become root:

su -
yum install google*

with an nvidia card you’ll need:

yum install xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs*.i586 (search with software install gui if it doesn't work)

and for ati card (thanks to space-hunter):

yum install xorg-x11-drv-catalyst-libs.i586

you’ll need these 32 bit libraries for Google to run quietly

yum install glibc-2.10.1-2.i686 libxml2.i586 freetype.i586 libXrender.i586 libXrandr.i586 mesa-libGL.i586 xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs.i586

Additions from Otto Mäkelä :

yum install libcanberra-gtk2.i586 bug-buddy.i586 PackageKit-gtk-module.i586

Then run :

sh GoogleEarthLinux.bin

it’s all…

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12 commentaires »

  • Morten Slott Hansen dit :
    14 juillet 2009 à 12 h 55 min

    Nice one – I was having the same problem and could not figure it out based on the lame error I got. I got everything but the 32bit nvidia-libs – which makes sense as it is a 32bit app. Why the hell doesn’t the error reflect this ?

  • fanisatt dit :
    16 juillet 2009 à 6 h 18 min

    Congratulations. You have the first and the only correct answer I find in the WEB.
    I used autoten for Fedora 11 x86_64 but Googleearth did not work.
    So , after I read your instructions I did this :
    su …..
    yum install xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs*.i586
    yum install glibc-2.10.1-2.i686 libxml2.i586 freetype.i586 libXrender.i586 libXrandr.i586 mesa-libGL.i586 xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs.i586
    After these I use autoten for the installation of googleearth and finally it’s ok.
    THANKS A LOT.

  • Otto Mäkelä dit :
    30 juillet 2009 à 19 h 05 min

    Thanks, that did it. In addition, I ran
    # yum install libcanberra-gtk2.i586 bug-buddy.i586 PackageKit-gtk-module.i586
    to install these libraries (plus quite a lot of dependencies, including things like cracklib and evolution-data-server!), so that Google Earth doesn’t complain about them missing at startup.

  • Anonymous dit :
    12 août 2009 à 13 h 49 min

    nss-mdns.i586 is also required, or GE will fail with « Error 29″ trying to connect to the Google servers.

  • Hanko dit :
    20 août 2009 à 0 h 54 min

    Needed all of the above, plus nss-mdns.i586 to work on Fedora 11 x86_64. Will post a link on my site. Enjoy!

  • Ashish Disawal dit :
    28 août 2009 à 7 h 28 min

    Thanks, It worked :)

  • azwan082 » Google Earth 5 on Fedora 11 64-bit dit :
    5 septembre 2009 à 8 h 09 min

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  • Getting Google Earth through SELINUX « monkeymike.co.uk dit :
    12 septembre 2009 à 20 h 26 min

    [...] the required 32 bit packages (to let you run it on a 64 bit system use: http://bigjim-network.be/2009/06/24/google-earth-on-fedora-11-64-bit/ Comments [...]

  • space-hunter dit :
    21 octobre 2009 à 22 h 19 min

    on Fedora 11 x86-64
    Error:Google Earth has caught signal 11.

    I use a ATI Card

    solution almost like Nvidia

    yum install xorg-x11-drv-catalyst-libs.i586

  • xa dit :
    18 novembre 2009 à 20 h 50 min

    aaaaa
    just the last command didn’t work:
    « sh GoogleEarthLinux.bin »
    says no such file or directory :(
    what am I doing wrong? am I typing the wrong command?

  • whynnot dit :
    23 juillet 2010 à 7 h 06 min

    thanks. also works on Fedora 13 after installing the nvidia drivers

  • Chris Tyler dit :
    29 juillet 2010 à 16 h 08 min

    If you are using SELINUX you might have to do this as well, assuming that you installed Google Earth as root:
    # sudo /sbin/restorecon ‘/opt/google-earth/*.so’
    # sudo /sbin/restorecon ‘/opt/google-earth/*.so.4′

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