Installing Google Earth?

Hi,

I'm new to the forum, Linux Linpus and AAOne...

I downloaded the Linux-compatible release of Google Earth and tried to open the .BIN file, which tried to open InstallPatch - only to say 'The patch file does not available'.

Without any other knowledge of installing .rpm and .b2z apps whether finally compatible with Linpus or not, I'm lost...

It's a great unit, I'm just lost with installing: What should the exact commands on Terminal be??

Thankyou.

Take care,

Jason :mrgreen:

 

To install a RPM file you can run the following command at the command line (must be run as root, so you can prompt$ su -, then enter the root password)

prompt# rpm -Uhv google-earth-linux.rpm (or whatever the rpm file name is)

This should give you hash marks vounting the percent complete then say done.

as for the bin file, the problem is when you download linux does not recognize the .bin as executable... to fix this you can enter

prompt$ chmod a+x <filename>

(of course the prompt$ and prompt# are the command line prompt, $ means regular user, # means root user).

chmod is the change mode command
a means all user
+x means turn on the execution mode.

thus chmod a+x means turn on execution for all users on file whatever.

to execute it (as linpus linux is based on fedora linux which means the current directory is not in your path by default) you would type
prompt$ ./google-earth-linux.bin (or whatever the filename is)

One of the above methods should get you there.

-Jeff

 

Another method that doesn't require the chmod command on the bin file is to run:

Code:

sh google-earth-linux.bin

(assuming "google-earth-linux.bin" is the installer file)

 

One thing i want to know, if One is powerful enough to run Google Earth>

 

I haven't ran it myself (might try it later on as i dont have it at work with me), but i'm sure it will run, it's just a case of how laggy it gets due to the graphics probably.

I will try and remember to have a look tonight, and update here.

 

Thanks for the replies

As I said I am completely new to Linux - having always used Windows, it reminds me of Command Prompt installations on Windows 95

 

Try installing gentoo lol. That's entirely installed from the command line!

Even the base system doesn't even had X installed for graphical display!

 

Don't waste your time installing google earth on the One. I tried it and it ran about 1 frame every 3 seconds. After 10 minutes waiting just for the camera to get to earth-level I said screw it. I heard it speeds up a lot if you disable certain layers, but I never tried it.

 

Thanks for your assistance, as I've said it's genuninely appeciated

I tried:

...which worked well, I got as far as it self-starting then it says...

So, is this a problem?

I assume it's because I tried changing the Install File to 'Google Earth', but the other one was just 'googleearth'?

Should I just re-install and leave the folders with the given names?

Take care,

Jason

 

OK, not sure on the problems that you have, but i have installed it sucessfully myself, and god is it slow! I dont think it's usable what so ever, so i'm now lookin for how to uninstall it lol

 

I am running google earth on linux aa1. It runs really nicely, BUT you have to do some things to get it going:

1. From other posts on the forum, enable the MTRR region to speed graphics:

Add the following lines:

Code:

echo "disable=4" > /proc/mtrr
echo "base=0x1f800000 size=0x800000 type=write-back" > /proc/mtrr

just after the line:
/etc/rc.d/rc.last &

in the file /etc/rc.d/rc.S

2. Get the driconf application

Code:

sudo yum install driconf

Run driconf, and choose "Never synchronise with vertical refresh, ignore applications choice" for the "synchronisation with vertical refresh button"

3. Run googleearth - it will be really slow. Disable "atmosphere", using the "view" ->"atmosphere" menu.

It will now run reasonably quickly.

Good luck,
Tim

 

SDousely: Just go to...

Desktop > My Files > My Disk > right-click the folder and Delete > Downloads > Delete the file GoogleEarthLinux.bin

...if you use the same Graphic User Interface

Take care,

Jason

 

THANKS ALL

I've now downloaded Driconf and disabled Atmosphere and is now running OK.

Thanks