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#1

I am running Open Suse 11.4 and have been trying to install Google Earth, but after trying some of the fixes showed on the Internet have had no luck, what do I have to do to get it to install and work on Open suse 11.4…thanks

#2

On 03/24/2011 04:36 AM, nitewalker41 wrote:
>
> I am running Open Suse 11.4 and have been trying to install Google
> Earth, but after trying some of the fixes showed on the Internet have
> had no luck, what do I have to do to get it to install and work on Open
> suse 11.4…thanks

where on the internet have you been looking?

this is openSUSE, and it best to look to folks who use openSUSE first

for example: http://tinyurl.com/6dcotau

and, tell us in what way and when during the install process are you
having what kinds of failures…

i outline here the entire process:

you go to google earth <http://www.google.com/earth/download/> select
and down load and do you pick the correct package for you 32 or 64 bit
openSUSE, click accept/download and select to open with Install/Remove
Software…and click ok…

and then it asks you for your root password, so you give that and
click ok again…

and, software manager starts wanting to install google earth, and you
click the accept button…

and, it whirs and blinks a few moments, downloads some stuff…and
when all activity has ended you click Finish…

then you go to the system menu, and find the google earth icon and
click on it, and it works…(or it does here, just that easy…when,
where and how did it go bad for you???)

–
DenverD
CAVEAT: http://is.gd/bpoMD
[NNTP posted w/openSUSE 11.3, KDE4.5.5, Thunderbird3.1.8, nVidia
173.14.28 3D, Athlon 64 3000+]
“It is far easier to read, understand and follow the instructions than
to undo the problems caused by not.” DD 23 Jan 11

#3

The current version of gogole earth straight from their website installed and ran without a problem for me.

There is a suse rpm available. I DL’d it and ran (as root):
**
rpm -Uvh google-earth-stable_current_x86_64.rpm

**This way it was installed and added it’s repository to the repos (funny how?).

Never the less, it runs excellently, with the little person to go down to 3D street mode :D.

For further questions I will help, go ahead.

#4

Still not working, I redownloaded the program from Google and followed step by step as DenverD mentioned, download went alright and install seemed to work alright [it poped up saying it was already installed and did I want to replace old file, I said yes to replace old file], and it was added as new app, but when I clicked on it nothing happened, I then ran the rpm thatmieszkaniec_lasu mentioned and got following results…

nitewalker@linux-w71t:~> rpm -Uvh google-earth-stable_current_x86_64.rpm
error: open of google-earth-stable_current_x86_64.rpm failed: No such file or directory
nitewalker@linux-w71t:~>

When I ran ls -l got following:

nitewalker@linux-w71t:~> ls -l
total 44
drwxr-xr-x 2 nitewalker users 4096 Mar 23 10:50 bin
drwxr-xr-x 2 nitewalker users 4096 Mar 24 11:47 Desktop
drwxr-xr-x 5 nitewalker users 4096 Mar 23 10:24 Documents
drwxr-xr-x 3 nitewalker users 4096 Mar 23 08:35 Downloads
drwxr-xr-x 2 nitewalker users 4096 Mar 21 09:46 Music
drwxr-xr-x 24 nitewalker users 4096 Mar 24 20:57 MyFiles
drwxr-xr-x 2 nitewalker users 4096 Mar 25 09:05 Pictures
drwxr-xr-x 2 nitewalker users 4096 Mar 21 09:46 Public
drwxr-xr-x 2 nitewalker users 4096 Mar 21 09:45 public_html
drwxr-xr-x 2 nitewalker users 4096 Mar 21 09:46 Templates
drwxr-xr-x 3 nitewalker users 4096 Mar 23 08:18 Videos

What am I doing wrong? thanks in advance for you help

#5

Which repository has the RPM for Suse? I would like to add the repo then install the RPM.

#6

The thing added to my repos is
http://dl.google.com/linux/earth/rpm/stable/x86_64

http://wstaw.org/m/2011/03/26/blog-googleearth1.png

but http://wstaw.org/m/2011/03/26/plasma-desktopZK2089.jpg

I’ve got…

http://wstaw.org/m/2011/03/26/plasma-desktopZK2089.jpg

BUT ! :

When clicking “Download Google Earth”, in next site you are presented with the options:

http://wstaw.org/m/2011/03/26/blog-googleearth1.png

  • choose yer system’s architecture (32 or 64 bit).

And after this download, open a terminal window, cd to the directory where you downloaded it to and run the following commands:

**su -

****rpm -Uvh google-earth-stable_current_x86_64.rpm

**If your architecture is 32 bit, this wil not contain **x86_64 **in it’s name, but i586, i686, i386.

This RPM works perfectly here!

#7

Got it
Thanks for the link
Runs well for me – on Tumbleweed FWIW

#8

Actually, the order is following:

  1. **cd /home/your_user/where_you_downloaded_the_RPM/
    **2. **rpm -Uvh google-earth-stable_current_x86_64.rpm

**@Swerdna, I am glad it helped. I appreciate your samba instructions. All sharing and printing here at home over wireless.

Best regards.

#9

You are not navigating to the subfolder, where you’ve downloaded google-earth

To navigate there use cd subfolder
After this run ls -l again.

To navigate to an upper folder run this command:

cd…

When in the folder, where oyu donloaded, run this command:

rpm -Uvh google-earth-stable_current_x86_64.rpm

I hope that’s clear, if not, put a post here

#10

Did what you suggested, still no go, this is what I am getting when I try and run the command, also is a copy of my directory where I downloaded google earth to…

nitewalker@linux-w71t:~/Downloads> ls -l
total 33856
-rw-r–r-- 1 nitewalker users 2868032 Mar 21 10:14 download.png
-rwxrwxr-x 1 nitewalker users 31794738 Mar 26 17:47 google-earth-stable_current_x86_64.rpm
nitewalker@linux-w71t:~/Downloads>

nitewalker@linux-w71t:~/Downloads> rpm -Uvh google-earth-stable_current_x86_64.rpm
warning: google-earth-stable_current_x86_64.rpm: Header V4 DSA/SHA1 Signature, key ID 7fac5991: NOKEY
error: can’t create transaction lock on /var/lib/rpm/.rpm.lock (Permission denied)

help please…thanks

#11

nitewalker41 Because you are NOT doing it as ROOT.

First you need to run the command su - (don’t forget the minus sign!!) and press Enter.
Give your root password.
You will know, you became ROOT because your cursor will become RED LIKE THIS:

http://wstaw.org/m/2011/03/27/plasma-desktopKB3420.jpg

… and now you can run the
rpm -Uvh google-earth-stable_current_x86_64.rpm command.

After you install the package, in the console LOG OUT from root account, by pressing Ctrl D and your cursor will not be RED anymore.

Now type google-earth and hit Enter

#12

**!!EDIT!!

**Ofcourse after becoming ROOT you need to **cd **(change directory) to your Downloads folder.
**
like this:

cd /home/YOUR_USER/Downloads
[FONT=Trebuchet MS]
[/FONT]**First than run the command **rpm -Uvh google-earth-stable_current_x86_64.rpm
**If you run the command elsewhere, nothing will happen, because the rpm command will not find the downloaded RPM to install

#13

I did what you suggested and this is the result readout…after it was done I tried to start Google earth but nothing happens???

linux-w71t:/home/nitewalker/Downloads # rpm -Uvh google-earth-stable_current_x86_64.rpm
warning: google-earth-stable_current_x86_64.rpm: Header V4 DSA/SHA1 Signature, key ID 7fac5991: NOKEY
Preparing… ########################################### [100%]
package google-earth-stable-6.0.1.2032-0.x86_64 is already installed
linux-w71t:/home/nitewalker/Downloads #

I am at your mercy on this one and really do appreciate you aide…

#14

Forgot to add this to my last post, this is results from going back to normal user and typing google-earth:

linux-w71t:/home/nitewalker/Downloads # logout
nitewalker@linux-w71t:~/Downloads> google-earth
./googleearth-bin: error while loading shared libraries: libGL.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
nitewalker@linux-w71t:~/Downloads>

#15

@nitewalker41: It looks like a dependency was not satisfied when google-earth was installed. Maybe the install of the RPM went badly. I would put the RPM in a folder where I dedicated storage for all my individually-downloaded RPMs. I would go to Yast 0–> Software → Repositories and I would “add” a “local directory” to my repository list (and “browse” to the storage directory and add it).

Then I would use Yast → software → software management and uninstall google-earth. Then I would use software management in Yast again, this time to reinstall google-earth. This time Yast’s package management scripts would take care of all dependencies.

Finally, as a precaution, before you do anything, can you run this command in a console window and report back the reply that you get:

zypper ls
#16

as per your suggestion her is the results of “zypper ls”

# | Alias                            | Name                             | Enabled | Refresh | Type  
--+----------------------------------+----------------------------------+---------+---------+-------
1 | Updates-for-openSUSE-11.4-11.4-0 | Updates for openSUSE 11.4 11.4-0 | Yes     | Yes     | rpm-md
2 | google-earth                     | google-earth                     | Yes     | Yes     | rpm-md
3 | openSUSE-11.4-11.4-0             | openSUSE-11.4-11.4-0             | Yes     | No      | yast2 
4 | repo-debug                       | openSUSE-11.4-Debug              | No      | Yes     | NONE  
5 | repo-debug-update                | openSUSE-11.4-Update-Debug       | No      | Yes     | NONE  
6 | repo-non-oss                     | openSUSE-11.4-Non-Oss            | Yes     | Yes     | yast2 
7 | repo-oss                         | openSUSE-11.4-Oss                | Yes     | Yes     | yast2 
8 | repo-source                      | openSUSE-11.4-Source             | No      | Yes     | NONE

thanks

#17

That looks pretty good to me. And the “rpm -Uvh… etc” process seems to ahve added the directory where you put the RPM as a personal repo, so no need to add a special directory again/additionally. Hence I would now just do this bit, see what happens:

Then I would use Yast → software → software management and uninstall google-earth. Then I would use software management in Yast again, this time to reinstall google-earth. This time Yast’s package management scripts would take care of all dependencies.

#18

I remember! Had the same problem. Opened Yast Software Management. Went to “Search” and chose option “Provides”. Typed the the missing lib (libGL.so.1) and received a package to install. I am not 100% sure it was the case, but worth a try.

Strange, my old 32 box reports that Mesa provides this lib. Try searching in yast in the way i described above. We got to get this phuck4r working.
**
EDIT!! : ** Install also the lsb-release package! I think this could be it. I have lookd at the Requirements of google-earth in yast. So I recalled a problem with the lsb. This might help. Tell what was the result. Both packages lsb and lsb-release should be installed. Try running google-earth than.

#19

libgl.so.1 is in the RPM Mesa-7.10-3.3.x86_64 which comes from the standard openSUSE repo and will be dragged in when you install google-earth properly. Lsb is also a dependency and also in the standard repo. Theoretically, what you need to do is this:

use Yast → software → software management and uninstall google-earth. Then I would use software management in Yast again, this time to reinstall google-earth. This time Yast’s package management scripts would take care of all dependencies.

Which should bring in the necessary dependent packages.

#20

YEAH!!! Up and running finally, only due to the wonderful help you all gave…what I did is what “Swerdna” suggested, and tried but no go, so then I went and checked what “Mieszkaniec_lasu” suggested, and found that both “lsb & lsb- released” was already installed, checked on “libGL.so.1” and it showed two files for “Mesa”, one was already installed but the one for 32bit wasn’t so I installed it even though I am running 64bit…clicked on Google Earth and all came up as advertised…THANKS TO YOU ALL SO VERY MUCH, COULDN’T HAVE DONE IT WITHOUT YOUR AIDE…much appreciated…so I guess that this can be marked as “solved”, but I don’t now how to do that??? Thanks again!!!