Howto Google Earth on Crunchbang Statler 32 & 64bit [updated]

To use an Application like Google Earth ... would it be advisable to add the Google repositories to your sources.list first?

## Google 'testing' repository
#deb http://dl.google.com/linux/deb/ testing main non-free

Last edited by vrkalak (2010-04-18 18:38:47)

it crashes Debian when I try to run it. The same way it crashes from Virtual Box. just a black screen with a blinking    _

Back in the olden days, when I used Windows ... Google Earth slowed my Vista down to a crawl or froze it completely.

From where I am now, in Linux and #! ... I don't use Google Earth or the Google repros., at all.

Thanks, for the 'heads up' though.

Last edited by vrkalak (2010-04-21 02:08:50)

I experienced the error described by richs-lxh
My - less elegant - workaround has also worked in the past when I have experienced errors from the googleearth website packages:

"borrow" the deb packages from medibuntu repository
There are two packages; install the data package first, then the second package. On my 32 bit squeeze & testing distros this gives no problems. Current version is googleearth  5.1.3509 from medibuntu

So... I've tried installing it manually and through the repository, and in both cases it gives me "Google Earth has caught signal 11", because it can't find the Nvidea drivers that are properly installed... (I have also turned off system eye candy, but it doesn't fix it.) The last page of this seems to solve this by turning off starting tips.  But I can't do this because when I go to the file ~/.config/Google/GoogleEarthPlus.conf, the relevant section does not exist.

I would like to try installing the Medibuntu repositories version, but when I try to add the repos with

sudo wget --output-document=/etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list http://www.medibuntu.org/sources.list.d/$(lsb_release -cs).list && sudo apt-get --quiet update && sudo apt-get --yes --quiet --allow-unauthenticated install medibuntu-keyring && sudo apt-get --quiet update

it gives me a 404.

Could I get your advice about what to try next?  Thanks...

Here is the logfile in ~/.googleearth/crashlogs :

Major Version 6
Minor Version 0
Build Number 0001
Build Date Dec 10 2010
Build Time 22:42:27
OS Type 3
OS Major Version 2
OS Minor Version 6
OS Build Version 32
OS Patch Version 0
Crash Signal 11
Crash Time 1295722354
Up Time 76.0542

Stacktrace from glibc:
./libgoogleearth_free.so(+0xac2a3)[0xb77902a3]
./libgoogleearth_free.so(+0xac423)[0xb7790423]
[0xb77f3400]
./libQtGui.so.4(_ZN14QWidgetPrivate11show_helperEv+0x61)[0xb6b215f1]
./libQtGui.so.4(_ZN7QWidget10setVisibleEb+0x1db)[0xb6b21a2b]
./libQtGui.so.4(_ZN14QWidgetPrivate12showChildrenEb+0x170)[0xb6b21560]
./libQtGui.so.4(_ZN14QWidgetPrivate11show_helperEv+0x61)[0xb6b215f1]
./libQtGui.so.4(_ZN7QWidget10setVisibleEb+0x1db)[0xb6b21a2b]
./libQtGui.so.4(_ZN7QWidget10showNormalEv+0x5c)[0xb6b0f16c]
./libgoogleearth_free.so(_ZN10MainWindow18readScreensizeInfoEv+0xd2f)[0xb775d08f]
./libgoogleearth_free.so(_ZN5earth6client11Application12SetupMainWinENS0_3Kvw7ProductEb+0x31c)[0xb779725$
./libgoogleearth_free.so(_ZN5earth6client11Application3runEv+0x4d6)[0xb779a406]
./libgoogleearth_free.so(+0xaad1b)[0xb778ed1b]
./libgoogleearth_free.so(earthmain+0x247)[0xb778fed7]
./googleearth-bin[0x804871b]
/lib/i686/cmov/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xe6)[0xb52cac76]
./googleearth-bin[0x8048661]

Last edited by rabidfox (2011-01-22 19:46:40)

try marble

Nice one, I hope your new machine is going well. It appears to be if your identi.ca dents are anything to go by