GoogleEarth for Pardus 2011

[andyb]

I've spent a while trying to install using the method in the wiki (installing a googleearthlinux.bin) but couldn't manage to make it work.

No hurry, but I do use it for work quite a bit!

Many thanks

[atolboo]

To keep you informed:
At this moment I have

Google Earth 6.0.1.2032 (beta)

running in Pardus i686.
(made from the 32 bit .rpm package + a symlink "sudo ln -sv /lib/ld-linux.so.2 /lib/ld-lsb.so.3")
Now I will try to get it installed in Pardus x86_64.........
When Google Earth depends on wine, there is a problem (or we have to be patient) in x86_64.
And update the Wiki after this.

[andyb]

Thanks for the update, atolboo!

[atolboo]

I am now on the 64-bit version for P2011 and until this moment it's
On my testcomputer I have a triple boot: P2011-32, P2011-64 and suse11.4-64
When I started I got:

atolboo@pardus2011 ~ $ googleearth %f
./googleearth-bin: error while loading shared libraries: libfontconfig.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

And after some modifications I get:

atolboo@pardus2011 ~ $ googleearth
./googleearth-bin: error while loading shared libraries: libfontconfig.so.1: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64

and

atolboo@pardus2011 ~ $ google-earth
./googleearth-bin: error while loading shared libraries: libfontconfig.so.1: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64

The "googleearth" is made from the downloaded file GE6.bin
The "google-earth" is made from the downloaded file GE6-64.rpm
Anybody any idea/suggestion how to solve this "wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64" 

[atolboo]

And after some modifications I get:

atolboo@pardus2011 ~ $ googleearth
./googleearth-bin: error while loading shared libraries: libfontconfig.so.1: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64

Problems with libfontconfig is solved
And now I get : can not find libfreetype.so.6"
But now I know how to solve the problem, maybe the next one is a little bit easier.............

[atolboo]

And now I get : can not find libfreetype.so.6"

Solved.
The next one is: can not find libX11.so.6

[atolboo]

By copying the missing files from /usr/lib/ of P2011-i686 > /usr/lib32/ of P2011-x86_64 I could solve the "missing file and wrong ELF class" problem for:

Code:

libfontconfig.so.1
libfreetype.so.6
libX11.so.6
libXrender.so.1
libXext.so.6

This /usr/lib32/ and I have to copy them from P2011-i686 shows that GE is a 32-bit program.
Now I get :

atolboo@pardus2011 ~ $ googleearth %f
./googleearth-bin: error while loading shared libraries: libGL.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

And after copying libGL.so.1 from P2011-i686 I get this "wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64" error.
I don't understand this as the file is taken from a 32-bit OS
At this moment I am out of options/ideas

[atolboo]

Progress report.......
After 4 days of    I managed to solve the "libGL.so.1" mystery.
The next one is libz.so.1   .

[atolboo]

And finally it's ............................ 

Have a look bellow.
And now it's time to  the build files and some more

[Michiel]

respect for your great endurance put in all your effort

[atolboo]

GE6-x86_64 now tested on the following video cards with  result:
nVidia - GeForce 210/PCI/SSE2
nVidia - GeForce NX6200AX-TD256H
Ati - RV280 Radeon 9250 Pro (with DVI output)

[atolboo]

GoogleEarth-6.0.1.2032 for x86_64 can now be installed from this >2. Additional (non-official) package source<
The i686 version was already available.