Re: googleearth

["Hans-J. Ullrich" <hans.ullrich@loop.de>]

Am Mittwoch 23 September 2009 schrieb Michael:
> Weird enough, i was able to reanimate googleearth by installing
>  nvidia-glx-ia32, additional to nvidia-glx (in a debian legacy setup). The
>  window started up before but didn't draw the actual graphics, just a blank
>  screen.
> 
> Sad thing is that since few month, GE 4.2 doesn't run anymore, which had
>  the one-mouse-'copter' navigation mode (Ctrl-G), the most genial thing on
>  earth (since the linux kernel), and which they removed soon afterwards.
>  4.2. seems to miss libbase.so. and i guess it's just no more compatible,
>  finally.
> 

ia32-apt-get isn't no more active and no more in the repository (pity of 
that). Just install ia32-libs and build googleearth again. You will also need 
nvidia-glx-ia32.

Good luck!

Hans