Google Earth on linux?

quellthrix · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 09 May 2005 Posts: 111

As we all know, Google Earth is, if nothing else, very entertaining to use and I've very much been wanting to use it without having to reboot into Windows XP. Has anyone tried to do this? I've attempted the install it with both wine and cedega with no success. Thanks for anyone who might be able to shed some light on whether or not this is possible.
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reynolds531 · Posted: Mon Oct 31, 2005 11:24 pm Post subject:

Can't help you with google earth, but apparently there's an effort underfoot to make NASA's World Wind (a similar program) cross-platform:

https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=107508

dan_aka_jack · Apprentice Joined: 04 Dec 2004 Posts: 169

I, too, would love to see Google Earth ported to Linux (and Portage, of course!). Is there any news?

Thanks,
Jack

taurus · Posted: Thu Nov 10, 2005 2:36 pm Post subject:

I think Google Earth depends heavily on DirectX so porting it to Linux could be a little more trouble. On the other hand, NASA's World Wind seems to be a winner to me...

dan_aka_jack · Apprentice Joined: 04 Dec 2004 Posts: 169

Take a look at this thread... there's already an open-source "world-wind type" program:

https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-2867569.html#2867569

Hawklad · Posted: Thu Nov 10, 2005 5:33 pm Post subject:

I have no source but I read somewhere a rumour that they were releasing a Linux port in early 2006. Could just be a rumor though,

magor · n00b Joined: 15 Sep 2005 Posts: 12

Runs with wine-0.9 without problems. (slower of course)

MxxCon · n00b Joined: 01 Apr 2005 Posts: 31

Progman3K · l33t Joined: 03 Jan 2004 Posts: 783

InstallShield Wizard pops up, the progress bar goes from 0 to 100% and then a Windows messagebox pops up:

quellthrix · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 09 May 2005 Posts: 111

Thanks for the information about world wind. I'll look into it.

Until then, just because I do get bored sometimes, I've been trying to install Google Earth under wine-0.9. My install crashes at the same as Progman3K's, so I'll probably just keep messing around in wine, replacing dll's and changing windows versions.

Progman, keep me posted if you manage to get things working. I can't meddle to much in my wine, because I've got Diablo II running near perfectly with alsa, so I don't want to destroy my hard work just to get Google Earth running and have D2 crash on me.
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Progman3K · l33t Joined: 03 Jan 2004 Posts: 783

I was able to get the GoogleEarth setup to advance a little further by running

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williamjonah · Apprentice Joined: 16 Sep 2005 Posts: 163

Does anyone know if there is a way to get google earth onto Gentoo? I trie4d wine, but that didn't work very well.

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SZwarts · Posted: Tue Nov 22, 2005 3:52 am Post subject:

It is rumoured that a linux version will be released very soon...

The wikipedia page says:

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RaZoR1394 · Guru Joined: 09 Jan 2005 Posts: 356

I managed it to install and run according to the tips on gentoo-wiki.com. But now when it starts it complains about not being able to connect to the server (kh.google.com). It can't be a firewall problem as the Google support says because it works fine in Windows XP.
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MxxCon · n00b Joined: 01 Apr 2005 Posts: 31

there's mac version of google earth floating around , hopefully that means linux native one is not too far off :lol:

mikegpitt · Advocate Joined: 22 May 2004 Posts: 3224

I've always been suprised that google doesn't simultaniously release their apps for linux, since they are a very pro-linux company.

Zepp · Posted: Wed Dec 14, 2005 12:35 am Post subject:

Google Earth is pretty fun to play with, hope a linux version is on the horizon

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yamakawa · Guru Joined: 28 Jul 2003 Posts: 340

I have tested both 0.9.2 and 0.9.3.
0.9.3 won't make the G.E. work at all, no matter what WINEDLLOVERRIDES was given.
0.9.2 works but there is a problem of the panels as already known.
Hope Google will release genuine Linux version of this and we enjoy it!

brims · Guru Joined: 19 Apr 2004 Posts: 492 Location: Arizona

Google uses Linux internally very extensively if I'm not mistaken. Now if that is true why don't they extrenally support it? As a large entity, it would be nice if Google not only took from but gave to the community. That's just my opinion. I know they aren't obligated to do so if they don't release their changes for public use, but if they are taking advantage of the community it would be nice if we got something out of them.

reynolds531 · Posted: Wed Dec 14, 2005 6:20 pm Post subject:

Didn't google give back to the community with their "Summer of Code" program? I was under the impression that they gave grants to a lot of open-source programmers.

mikegpitt · Advocate Joined: 22 May 2004 Posts: 3224

I think google gives back also, as most of their tools are webbased, and usable under Linux. I jsut think it would be great to see a company liek Google, who seems very anti-microsoft to release things for Linux simultaniously with Windows releases. I think it would send a nice message to the public and more important to the financial markets.

brims · Guru Joined: 19 Apr 2004 Posts: 492 Location: Arizona