[PLUG] Google Earth crashes: a revisited thread

[Ben Koenig]

I agree with wes, your best next step is to swap in a harddrive with a
different OS and see how that goes.

On Tue, Dec 3, 2019 at 1:14 PM Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com>
wrote:

> On Tue, 3 Dec 2019, Ben Koenig wrote:
>
> > Also, how recently did you download the source .deb? Apparently google
> > doesn't version their downloads so we have no way to guarantee that what
> > version I downloaded yesterday. Can you grab me the version# from the
> help
> > menu so that I can rule out any funny business?
>
> Ben,
>
> The last time the SBo GoogleEarth maintainer posted an upgraded package;
> sbopkg would have then upgraded the installed version.
>
> > The SBo README says you needed to delete a font config file, and then
> make
> > a symlink to get it to run without crashes, but it seemed fine and I
> didn't
> > do either of those things.
>
> That holds true for 32-bit systems also.
>
> > Did you make any of the changes outlined here?
> >https://slackbuilds.org/repository/14.2/gis/google-earth/
>
> Yep. Years ago, and those changes have been made on each system with GE
> installed.
>
> Rich
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