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google earth crashes ubuntu (hardy heron) 8.0

Asked by grouchyolddude

was running fine prior to the upgrade to the new version.
It takes me immediately back to the session login screen, when I try to start it.
It does the same thing iin gnome..

  I found a 'fix' for the same issue running 7.04 here
[quote]Here is a possible workaround[1][2]:
$ cd /usr/lib/googleearth/
$ sudo wget http://librarian.launchpad.net/7037027/libGL.so.1 -O libGL.so.1[/quote]

I've downloaded te library files, but
I get a "no such file or directory" reply to the first command "cd/usr/'''"

  I'm pretty green on the whole linux system, please bear with me.. :)

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Albin Tonnerre (lutin) said : 		#1

You're missing a space between 'cd' and '/'

Cheers

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LKRaider (paul-eipper) said : 		#2

Is this with compiz enabled? Did you try disabling it? (system->prefs->appearance and disable visual effects)

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grouchyolddude (grouchyolddude) said : 		#3

I've tried it with 'gui' effects both enabled and disabled.
 I get a message in terminal now saying that it is a bug in the program and a report will be sent to google.
... yadda yaddda ..

If I run through command line, it just fails to start.

Thanks for the help folks :).

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Best LKRaider (paul-eipper) said : 		#4

There is a known issue with google earth 4.3 that it is compiled for SSE2 capable only processors.

You try this command on a terminal and check if there is any output:
cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep sse2 -o

If there is no output then your computer cannot run google earth 4.3 and you should try installing google earth 4.2 from the repository.

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grouchyolddude (grouchyolddude) said : 		#5

Thanks LKRaider, that solved my question.