Google Earth

[Ed Greshko]

Steve Siegfried wrote:
> Antonio M wrote:
>>  and after latest (this morning) Xorg updates my GoogleEarth didn't
>> work any longer: I am waiting that Firefox will allow me to download
>> again GE and re-install (not sure which version is on my PC...) to
>> see.
>> Any way, I think that the problem is connected to drivers and not to GE.
>> I am using nv driver, now I have same problem, user is immediately
>> loggesd out as soon as it starts GE...
>>
> 
> 
> So if I've got this right, you:
> 	1- installed GoogleEarth and it worked
> 	2- updated Xorg stuff and GoogleEarth stopped working.
> 
> Lemme guess... you're running prelink, right?
> 
> There's something about the code in GoogleEarth that doesn't play well
> with prelink... especially after upgrading libraries.
> 
> Try this:
> 	1- turn off (or remove) prelink
> 	2- remove GoogleEarth and re-install
> 	3- do an upgrade that includes libraries likely to be used by GE
> 
> Think you'll find that without prelink messing about in your bin and
> lib directories, that GoogleEarth survives an upgrade.
> 
> You can pretty much prove that prelink is the culprit here by doing the
> above 3 steps and then:
> 	4- reinstall prelink
> 	5- do another upgrade of some kind that includes libraries likely
> 	   to be used by GE
> 	6- leave the machine up for 48 hours so prelink can do it's stuff
> 	7- invoke GoogleEarth
> 
> 
> Hope this helps,

FWIW, prelink is used here and google earth runs just fine....

If one wants to get a list of libraries used by google earth then all one 
needs to do is "ldd  googleearth-bin" in the directory where GE is installed.