[PLUG] Slackware Google Earth on Jetway

[J. Hart]

Here are a few reports regarding the more recent versions of Google Earth :

https://askubuntu.com/questions/946318/map-is-not-full-screen-in-google-earth-pro

https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2370195

https://forums.opensuse.org/showthread.php/526720-Google-Earth-graphics-problem

https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=251945

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?
>