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Re: GoogleEarth install



On Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 10:24:53PM -0700, 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?

You also need XAUTHORITY=/path/to/.Xauthority_of_user_logged_in_to_X

DISPLAY says who to talk to, the XAUTHORITY gives you the cookies needed
to actually do the talking.

--
Len Sorensen



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