Dear friends,
Fed up with Windows I changed to Linux. Ubuntu 7.10 in my case. However when I call up Google Earth, it freezes at start up, showing only its white startup square, which remains on the desktop however long I wait. It seems a very common problem, but thats no solace. As Google Earth is designed to run under Windows, I have reinstalled Wine, but that didn't solve the problem. I think Google Earth is waiting for some connection he cannot get, but thats only a guess. It seems the problem is already solved many times, but how have they done it?

Hi

Are you using the Windows version with Wine? If you are, I suggest downloading and installing the Linux version.

I've heard that it uses an embedded version of Wine, so it doesn't matter what kind of version of Wine you have installed.

Another hint for programs that wont behave and don't give error messages, is to not start the program by clicking on the shortcut, but instead to open a terminal and run a command to start it instead. If you examine the shortcut, you can find out which command is used to start the application.

Often you get tons of error messages and warnings in the terminal window. If you can't figure out what they mean, try to Google them, or post in some forum like LQ.

Dear Guttorm,
All software I use is downloaded from Synaptics. So Google Eath, Wine etc. These are always the latest version.
Herman DEgenhart.