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google-earth (Google's famous virtual globe)
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Google Earth is a virtual globe program. It maps a version of the
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Earth by the superimposition of images obtained from satellite
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imagery, aerial photography and GIS over a 3D globe. You point
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and zoom to any place on the planet that you want to explore.
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Satellite images and local facts zoom into view. Tap into Google
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search to show local points of interest and facts. Zoom to a
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specific address to check out an apartment or hotel. View driving
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directions and even fly along your route.
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The degree of resolution available is based somewhat on the points
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of interest, but most land (except for some islands) is covered in at
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least 15 meters of resolution.
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When running GoogleEarth for the first time, you will see an error
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message stating that it is unable to find the Bitstream Vera fonts.
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This should be safe to ignore - it will use other fonts (and the
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DejaVu fonts included with Slackware are based on the Bitstream fonts).
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NOTES:
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1) Google updates the GoogleEarth bin-file without changing the download
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link location and they don't use version numbering in the filename
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(the version is more an internal numbering).
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Therefore, this script is subject to failing (and a different MD5SUM)
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at any time due to the fact that you might get a newer version
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of GoogleEarth than what the script is designed to use. Please notify
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the maintainer if this is the case.
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2) Google Earth 7 is "LSB compliant" meaning it was built on a LSB system.
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Slackware however does not have that symlink which is part of the LSB 3.0
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specification. You'll need to create the symlink manually after installing
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the package:
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ln -sf /lib/ld-linux.so.2 /lib/ld-lsb.so.3
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3) Google Earth tends to crash when the 65-fonts-persion.conf is available on
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the system. aPlease remove /etc/fonts/conf.d/65-fonts-persian.conf prior
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launching this application. The easiest way to do this is:
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mv /etc/fonts/conf.d/65-fonts-persian.conf \
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/etc/fonts/conf.d/65-fonts-persian.conf.old
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4) GoogleEarth is a 32bit application only. You need to have the 32bit
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compatibility packages installed to have this work on a 64bit system.
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Otherwise you'll just see "no such file or directory" errors. I am aware
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that Google puts a 64bits debian package out, but this is a 32bits package
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with a 64bit wrapper for debian that installs multilib
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5) GoogleEarth now requires that you have OpenGL drivers installed on your
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system (and Xorg configured to use them). Not doing so will cause X
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to crash.
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