[PLUG] Slackware Google Earth on Jetway

J. Hart jfhart085 at gmail.com
Thu Mar 7 19:01:04 UTC 2019


Google Earth has this issue with many non-proprietary (open source) 
drivers.  You may need to use a closed source NVidia or AMD driver to 
get it to work.

On 03/07/2019 12:58 PM, Dick Steffens wrote:
> I just tried installing Google Earth on my latest Slackware project, 
> on my Jetway machine.
>
> The SlackBuild completed with one warning:
>
> WARNING:  zero length file opt/google/earth/pro/kh56
>
> Since it was "just" a warning I went ahead and ran Installpkg 
> /tmp/google-earth-7.3.2.5495-x86_64-1_SBo.tgz
>
> The install completed without complaint.
>
> I ran it from the Applications menu (Xfce) and got the same screen as 
> the last time I tried on one of my other machines. The splash screen 
> appears, then the text part of the GE window appears and fills in. 
> Then a small box appears in the space provided for the graphical 
> display. This box contains a star field in motion for a few seconds. 
> The splash screen never goes away. If someone is interested in seeing 
> it, I have a screenshot I can send off list.
>
> When I closed it I got the keyring request.
>
> Any other ideas?
>




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