Re: GoogleEarth install

[Thierry Chatelet <tchatelet@free.fr>]

Rob Blomquist wrote:
> I am getting a series of errors from GE on install:
>
> timmy:/home/robbo# DISPLAY=:0.0 ./GoogleEarthLinux.bin
> Verifying archive integrity... All good.
> Uncompressing Google Earth for GNU/Linux 
> 4.0.1693..................................................................
> setup.data/bin/Linux/amd64/setup.gtk2: error while loading shared libraries: 
> libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or 
> directory
>
> Where do I get libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0?
>
> Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
> Xlib: No protocol specified
>
> Note that my initial command was DISPLAY=:0.0 ./GoogleEarthLinux.bin, I don't 
> understand that with my DISPLAY set why this should occur?
>
> Rob
>
>   
I dont understand the error you get, but just in case, you have to do 
the install as a normal user, not root.
Thierry