Google Earth on linux?

Griswold · Apprentice Joined: 26 Aug 2004 Posts: 212

Google Earth is now in Portage.

Mr. Tiddles · n00b Joined: 13 Jun 2006 Posts: 2

I've tried with both the ebuild and the .bin file, it starts fine, and connects fine. But as soon as it starts zooming in towards the surface of the earth then all the imagery in the middle of the screen just disappears. Around the edges then there's still images, but they're completely screwed up relative to the country borders overlaid on the globe. I have most of west mexco in the middle of the pacific...
Also, the text across the bottom of the viewport is messed up, some letters display and others don't.

System is amd64, mostly from the stable tree. Running X.org 7.0 with nVidia's drivers on a 256mb GeForce 6500

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coutts99 · Posted: Tue Jun 13, 2006 9:29 am Post subject:

badchien · Guru Joined: 16 Feb 2004 Posts: 415 Location: doghouse

I fixed my fonts-too-small problem. It was really a case of DPI set incorrectly for my display. Once I got that fixed all my fonts got bigger, but the point is that the fonts in Google Earth are now readable.

Bluespear · Posted: Tue Jun 13, 2006 9:52 am Post subject:

Workd perfectly, at least, we don't need to run it with Wine now (which gave me buggy fonts).

Lori · Posted: Tue Jun 13, 2006 9:58 am Post subject:

I just installed Google Earth from Portage, I am really happy they finally released a Linux version. At startup however it complains about missing fonts:

psutokth · Posted: Tue Jun 13, 2006 10:30 am Post subject:

coutts99 · Posted: Tue Jun 13, 2006 10:32 am Post subject:

Gentree · Posted: Tue Jun 13, 2006 12:07 pm Post subject:

Mr. Tiddles · n00b Joined: 13 Jun 2006 Posts: 2

It doesn't need root priveleges, it'll install itself in ~/google-earth if it doesn't have them (or wherever else you tell it), also if you open the .bin in a text editor you can see at least some of the installer. I haven't looked in detail so I don't know quite how much you can see.

sternklang · Posted: Tue Jun 13, 2006 12:32 pm Post subject:

googleearth is in Portage now. Interestingly, the display issues I had under Xgl just downloading the .bin and installing it in /opt don't exist with the version installed from the ebuild. I'm not sure I understand why.

Scullder · Guru Joined: 16 Mar 2006 Posts: 466 Location: France

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MorLipf · Posted: Tue Jun 13, 2006 5:17 pm Post subject:

I cannot emerge GoogleEarth. Here is the error message:

Gentree · Posted: Tue Jun 13, 2006 5:41 pm Post subject:

Henry_kay · n00b Joined: 31 Jan 2005 Posts: 43

I have problem here running google earth. When i start it without hardware acceleration it works fine (although very vesy slow)
When i run it with fglrx i get a segmentation fault:

eealex · n00b Joined: 29 Oct 2004 Posts: 65 Location: Japan

Same here and the font looks terribly small. Solved by adding this (thanks to the Gentoo German forum although I don't read German):

Linubie · Guru Joined: 11 Jun 2004 Posts: 365

Gentree · Posted: Tue Jun 13, 2006 8:56 pm Post subject:

OK , manifest was corrected earlier. Just installed and works beautifully (GeForce4 nvidia) . Loads of posts on Ubuntu as well by saddened ATI supporters. Looks like the drivers are seriously fglrxed. No surprise there of course.

for the sandbox errors try removing kde from USE . I dont have it at all in /etc/make.conf and I dont have the offending file nor the acces violation on installation.

suggest adding a line to /etc/portage/package.use ...

HTH

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Animatrix · Posted: Tue Jun 13, 2006 9:23 pm Post subject:

bobspencer123 · Guru Joined: 19 Dec 2005 Posts: 544

fonts fixed for me by following this wiki pay special attention to the dpi calculation part.

there_is_no_spoon · n00b Joined: 08 May 2004 Posts: 57 Location: Switzerland

Aries-Belgium · Posted: Tue Jun 13, 2006 10:34 pm Post subject:

I just emerged it on AMD64 without any trouble. It also runs fast as hell!
What portage version are the guys using where the emerge fails? Because I also updated portage to 2.1 before emerging Google Earth.
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there_is_no_spoon · n00b Joined: 08 May 2004 Posts: 57 Location: Switzerland

2.1 as well ...