I have Sketchup from Google on my windows OS but would prefer it in Linux. Doing a internet search, I find it under WINE application, but I honestly do not know what WINE is. Has anyone seen or been working on getting this application ported to OpenSuse. My desire is to utilize Sketchup with Google Earth to incorporate latitude, longitude and topography for optimizing solar system layouts around buildings, trees, hills, etc.
On 08/01/2012 05:56 PM, munichtexan wrote:
> My desire is to utilize
> Sketchup with Google Earth to incorporate latitude, longitude and
> topography for optimizing solar system layouts around buildings, trees,
> hills, etc.
i’m pro-solar energy so i like what you wanna do…but, i guess can
wait a long time before someone ports that app to Linux…so, if you
have read that it works with WINE, then you just need to install WINE
and learn how to use it…what it does is it allows you to run windows
software in Linux…
i see several tutorials in this google:
https://www.google.com/search?q=Sketchup+OR+“sketch+up”+in+linux
you can use YaST Software Management to install WINE…
oh, btw: 11.3 has exceeded its end-of-life and you should first move to
a supported version (11.4 or 12.1)…or, just don’t expose that 11.3 to
the nasties on the net…(and, it is openSUSE, not “Open Suse”)
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dd
Hi
I use crossover to run it, works fine, either try the trial version of
that, else just install wine from the repositories then it would be
command line to run the installer…
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Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
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WINE emulates Windows on Linux. You likely won’t find it for 11.3, as that is no longer supported, and 11.4 will be discontinued in September. Consider upgrading.
You can install wine then download and save the sketchup installer file (.exe)
Mouse right click the .exe and open with wine, wine will do the rest for you.
I use sketchup in linux using wine, it’s not as flawless like in windows but it works.
I heard it’s best to use in linux using the nvidia graphic card.
On 2012-08-01 18:36, chief sealth wrote:
> that is no longer supported, and 11.4 will be discontinued in September.
November, at least. Rule is 2 months after release of the next plus one version. Then there
might be evergreen.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” at Telcontar)
On 2012-08-01 18:36, chief sealth wrote:
> WINE emulates Windows on Linux.
WINE stands for “Wine is Not an Emulator” 
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” at Telcontar)
I installed wine for 11.3, used winetricks to install sketchup, as suggested elsewhere. Sketchup starts and then when I click on templates, the templates come up, click on templates and hit start sketchup, the following pop up comes up:
“Sketchup was unable to initialize OpenGL! Please make sure you have installed the correct drivers for your graphics card. Error: ChoosePixelFormat failed”
I am getting an error - sha1sum mismatch! rename GoogleSketchUpWEN.exe. Did this and used winetricks to reinstall, same problem.
I advice you to please visit the wine site.
When you’re there try to find(search) the error that you encountered.
There is a workaround for that error in the wine site and you need to edit the
wine registry for opengl to work. Sorry I have no time for now to link it here, but it is easy to find.
Good luck.