[SOLVED] hpw to install Google Earth on Debian Wheezy

273 · 01-19-2014, 12:23 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by sgosnell

Google earth is basically dead. The functionality has been put into Google Maps. Just go to Google Maps in your browser, and you have everything Google Earth used to have, and more.

The new version (that you have to have a Google account to try) comes vaguely close but it's not anywhere near as easy to navigate (and that's ignoring that I have 3D controller I can use with the stand-alone). I didn't see any building either and the screen seemed cluttered with rubbish but there were no obvious places to select things like 3D buildings.
It may be trendy to pretend that web applications are great but when it comes to it a stand-alone application will almost always be a better experience.

wsurfak · 01-19-2014, 09:31 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by sgosnell

Google earth is basically dead. The functionality has been put into Google Maps. Just go to Google Maps in your browser, and you have everything Google Earth used to have, and more.

Except that the Google Earth browser plug-in doesn't support GNU/Linux at this time.

sgosnell · 01-20-2014, 09:18 AM

Like it or not, Google is killing Google Earth, and replacing it with Google Maps. Firefox/Iceweasel might not have suitable plugins, but it works fine in Chrome. And that's probably all Google cares about.

273 · 01-20-2014, 01:04 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by sgosnell

Like it or not, Google is killing Google Earth, and replacing it with Google Maps. Firefox/Iceweasel might not have suitable plugins, but it works fine in Chrome. And that's probably all Google cares about.

True. I know I'll move to Bing maps if they kill Google Earth.

wsurfak · 01-23-2014, 09:24 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by sgosnell

Firefox/Iceweasel might not have suitable plugins, but it works fine in Chrome. And that's probably all Google cares about.

I find no Google Earth plugin for Chrome/Chromium in Linux.

273 · 01-23-2014, 12:58 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by wsurfak

I find no Google Earth plugin for Chrome/Chromium in Linux.

There's a new Google Maps that's like a cut-down version of Google Earth which may only work in Chrome/Chromium (I've not bothered to try it in Firefox) which appears to be a different thing to whatever the "Google Earth Plug-In" was that you could use on Windows.
And, sadly, as sgosnell points out it does rather point to Google doing away with the application Google Earth and going to the pathetic load of rubbish web-based cut-down version instead.

sgosnell · 01-23-2014, 07:38 PM

There is no need for a plugin for Google Maps in Chrome. You just enter the URL and you get Google Maps, with all the functionality of Google Earth, as far as I can tell. You just don't need to load many megabytes of a binary package in advance.

Love it or hate it, the computer world is heading towards a paradigm of using a thin client to access data in the cloud. Storing everything locally is becoming obsolete. The apps, data, and everything is on track to be stored on servers, and all you need locally is a simple machine that accesses all that when needed. You can still store your data locally if you want, but it's going to become more and more difficult. I'm not even going to debate whether this is a good thing, I'm just saying it is.

wsurfak · 01-24-2014, 12:08 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by sgosnell

There is no need for a plugin for Google Maps in Chrome. You just enter the URL and you get Google Maps, with all the functionality of Google Earth, as far as I can tell.

I see that this is what Google is calling "New Google Maps" and it only works in Chrome and Chromium on my Linux box (not in Firefox/Iceweasel, Opera, Konqueror ...). I don't see a way to get an approximate date of satellite imagery in this new google maps, unlike Google Earth.

make-googleearth-package currently makes a package for a slightly newer 6.0.3.2197+1.1.0-1 version of Google Earth on my amd64 box, that installs fine without any modifications. I did have to install libfreeimage3:amd64 to satisfy a dependency.

Code:

$ make-googleearth-package --download                                                                                  
--2014-01-24 12:25:08--  http://dl.google.com/earth/client/current/GoogleEarthLinux.bin                                            
Resolving dl.google.com (dl.google.com)... 74.125.22.190, 74.125.22.93, 74.125.22.91, ...                                          
Connecting to dl.google.com (dl.google.com)|74.125.22.190|:80... connected.                                                        
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK                                                                                     
Length: 33688483 (32M) [application/octet-stream]                                                                                  
Saving to: ‘GoogleEarthLinux.bin’                                                                                                  
                                                                                                                                   
100%[=========================================================================================>] 33,688,483   725KB/s   in 47s     
                                                                                                                                   
2014-01-24 12:25:54 (707 KB/s) - ‘GoogleEarthLinux.bin’ saved [33688483/33688483]                                                  

Google Earth for GNU/Linux 6.0.3.2197
Supported Google Earth version: 6.0.3.2197
...
Package: googleearth
Version: 6.0.3.2197+1.1.0-1
Section: non-free/science
Priority: optional
Maintainer:  <alex@MSAK1>
Architecture: amd64
Depends: fonts-liberation, libfreeimage3, lsb-core, libqtcore4, libgl1-mesa-glx, libglu1-mesa , libcurl3:i386, libsm6:i386, libfontconfig1:i386, libxt6:i386, libxrender1:i386, libxext6:i386, libgl1-mesa-glx:i386, libgl1-mesa-dri:i386
Suggests: lib32nss-mdns|libnss-mdns:i386, libgl1-nvidia-glx:i386, libgl1-fglrx-glx:i386
Description: Google Earth, a 3D map/planet viewer
 Package built with googleearth-package.
dpkg-deb: building package `googleearth' in `./googleearth_6.0.3.2197+1.1.0-1_amd64.deb'.
-----------------------------
Success!
You can now install the package with e.g:

sudo dpkg -i googleearth_6.0.3.2197+1.1.0-1_amd64.deb
# dpkg -i googleearth_6.0.3.2197+1.1.0-1_amd64.deb                                                   
Selecting previously unselected package googleearth.                                                                               
(Reading database ... 241278 files and directories currently installed.)                                                           
Preparing to unpack googleearth_6.0.3.2197+1.1.0-1_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking googleearth (6.0.3.2197+1.1.0-1) ...
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of googleearth:
 googleearth depends on libfreeimage3; however:
  Package libfreeimage3 is not installed.

dpkg: error processing package googleearth (--install):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.22-1) ...
Processing triggers for mime-support (3.54) ...
Processing triggers for shared-mime-info (1.0-1+b1) ...
Unknown media type in type 'all/all'
Unknown media type in type 'all/allfiles'
Unknown media type in type 'uri/mms'
Unknown media type in type 'uri/mmst'
Unknown media type in type 'uri/mmsu'
Unknown media type in type 'uri/pnm'
Unknown media type in type 'uri/rtspt'
Unknown media type in type 'uri/rtspu'
Processing triggers for menu (2.1.46) ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
 googleearth
# apt-get install libfreeimage3
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  libfreeimage3
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 85 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 323 kB of archives.
After this operation, 1,500 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ unstable/main libfreeimage3 amd64 3.15.4-3 [323 kB]
Fetched 323 kB in 1s (314 kB/s)        
Retrieving bug reports... Done
Parsing Found/Fixed information... Done
Selecting previously unselected package libfreeimage3.
(Reading database ... 242111 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../libfreeimage3_3.15.4-3_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking libfreeimage3 (3.15.4-3) ...
Setting up libfreeimage3 (3.15.4-3) ...
Setting up googleearth (6.0.3.2197+1.1.0-1) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.17-97) ...
Processing triggers for menu (2.1.46) ...

peter9 · 06-08-2014, 06:37 AM

I still have a problem to run googleearth.
After successful installation as suggested by rpr.nospam (see post #8) ...

Code:

> gdebi googleearth-custom_amd64.deb
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree        
Reading state information... Done
Building data structures... Done 
Building data structures... Done 
Erfordert das ENTFERNEN folgender Pakete: 
googleearth 
Erfordert die Installation folgender Pakete: 
libfreeimage3 
Google Earth, a 3D map/planet viewer
 Package built with googleearth-package.
Wollen Sie das Software-Paket installieren? [j/N]:J
Fetched 0 B in 0s (0 B/s)
(Lese Datenbank ... 148674 Dateien und Verzeichnisse sind derzeit installiert.)
Entfernen von googleearth ...
Trigger für shared-mime-info werden verarbeitet ...
Trigger für menu werden verarbeitet ...
Trigger für desktop-file-utils werden verarbeitet ...
Trigger für gnome-menus werden verarbeitet ...
Trigger für mime-support werden verarbeitet ...
Vormals nicht ausgewähltes Paket libfreeimage3 wird gewählt.
(Lese Datenbank ... 147841 Dateien und Verzeichnisse sind derzeit installiert.)
Entpacken von libfreeimage3 (aus .../libfreeimage3_3.15.1-1+b1_amd64.deb) ...
libfreeimage3 (3.15.1-1+b1) wird eingerichtet ...
Vormals nicht ausgewähltes Paket googleearth wird gewählt.
(Lese Datenbank ... 147850 Dateien und Verzeichnisse sind derzeit installiert.)
Entpacken von googleearth (aus googleearth-custom_amd64.deb) ...
googleearth (6.0.3.2197+0.7.0-1) wird eingerichtet ...
Trigger für mime-support werden verarbeitet ...
Trigger für desktop-file-utils werden verarbeitet ...
Trigger für gnome-menus werden verarbeitet ...
Trigger für menu werden verarbeitet ...
Trigger für shared-mime-info werden verarbeitet ...
>

... I get an error message when starting the programm:

Code:

> googleearth
/usr/lib/googleearth/googleearth-bin: error while loading shared libraries: libfontconfig.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

... any ideas ?

273 · 06-08-2014, 06:39 AM

Yes, try installing libfontconfig1.

peter9 · 06-09-2014, 03:42 AM

The package libfontconfig1 was already installed (see below):

Code:

> apt-get install libfontconfig1
Paketlisten werden gelesen... Fertig
Abhängigkeitsbaum wird aufgebaut.       
Statusinformationen werden eingelesen.... Fertig
libfontconfig1 ist schon die neueste Version.
0 aktualisiert, 0 neu installiert, 0 zu entfernen und 67 nicht aktualisiert.

I still get this message:

Code:

> googleearth
/usr/lib/googleearth/googleearth-bin: error while loading shared libraries: libfontconfig.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Hungry ghost · 06-09-2014, 03:13 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by peter9

I still get this message:

Code:

> googleearth
/usr/lib/googleearth/googleearth-bin: error while loading shared libraries: libfontconfig.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

:

I'm not sure, but copying libfontconfig.so.1 from its install directory into /usr/lib/googleearth *might* work. It should be somewhere inside the /usr/lib/<your_architecture> directory.

wsurfak · 06-10-2014, 09:43 AM

# apt-get install libfontconfig1:i386