Google Earth won't start on Slackware64 13.37 with multi-lib
 

The problem, I can not get Google Earth to start on Slackware 64 bit system. This system I upgraded from 13.1, and I have Multi-lib support installed. I followed Alien Bob's doc to install Multi-lib.

There is one nagging question I have with the upgrade. Should I have deleted the /lib directory before re-installing multi-lib? I did not, I guessed the new versions of each file would overwrite the old versions.

Now, with some investigation, I can't make the symlink called for in the README, I ran the file command, and got this:

What I don't understand, is should there be a file ld-lsb.so.3 ? or a file ld-linux.so.2 ? I thought ( from what little I understand about symlinks, ) ld-lsb.so.3 should be a real file. Is that correct? If yes, what where do I get that file from?

If I have it backwards, where do I get ld-linux.so.2 from?

There should definitely be a file /lib/ld-linux.so.2(actually that is a symlink itself). On Slackware 13.37 I have:
The symlink /lib/ld-lsb.so.3 -> /lib/ld-linux.so.2 is something that you have to do yourself.

Eric

I know, I tried. From what you have said, I'm missing the file ld-linux.so.2 Where do I get that from?

I removed the broken sym link. I re-ran the command 'upgradepkg --install-new *-compat32/*.t?z' from the slackware64-compat32 directory, however ld-linux.so.2 doesn't get installed.

When the command ran, I saw the message 'package skipped, already installed' So,

where can I find ld-linux.so.2 ???

You get ld-2.13.so from glibc-2.13_multilib-x86_64-4alien and/or glibc-solibs-2.13_multilib-x86_64-4alien. Apparently you don't have ld-2.13.so, so apparently your multilib is broken.

You should only use installpkg, upgradepkg and removepkg (or the higher level tools like slackpkg and sbopkg) to install, upgrade/reinstall and remove packages. If you only use these tools, you will never need to delete anything manually. Especially not /lib ;-)

I have ld-2.13.so, I just did a locate, it is there.

Well, progress of sorts. What I did was re-ran the install of compat32-tools. I then had ld-linux.so.2, which is a sym-link to ld-2.13.so. I made the sym-link as per the README for GoogleEarth.

I now see If I run googleearth, it now Seg Faults.

Don't know what else to try. Your thoughts.

Please, you made​​:

?????

good luck

Where did you get the GoogleEarth package you are trying to run?

Once I had Slackware64 13.37 and the multilib files installed, I had trouble with the GoogleEarth package I had
previously downloaded from Google and ran on 'current.'

I went to GoogleEarth's web site and couldn't find a "generic" package, i.e., there was no longer (that I could find) a GoogleEarth.sh package, but only packages for .deb and .rpm. So, I went to SlackBuilds.org, download the script and the source, ran the script, and the resulting package installed and worked without a problem.

Just FYI.

I got it from slackbuilds.org. It seg-faults.

Here is what is reported in dmesg.

It appears libGL.so.270.41.06 has something to do with it.

libGL.so.270.41.06 is part of Nvidia's binary driver which you seem to have installed. Perhaps try to install it (or a newer version) again? Make sure to answer "YES" to the question whether 32-bit driver should be installed as well.

Eric

Problem solved. I re-downloaded the driver from Nvidia, re-installed it from the new download, and said YES to 32 bit driver support. This is what I had done after the upgrade. Other 32 bit apps were O.K. specifically Frostwire worked like a charm.

I'm writing this one off to purple smoke and mirrors. Why GoogleEarth seg-faulted on the first install of the Nvidia driver, and not on the -re-install, I don't know.

Thank-you to all those who helped.