Google Earth for Linux Has Been Released

madluther · 07-06-2006, 03:30 PM

By default it places the system wide files in /usr/local/google-earth and user specific stuff in ~/.googleearth . There will also be a symbolic link in /usr/local/bin
named googleearth which is linked to /usr/local/google-earth/googleearth

Delete all of the above.

zetabill · 07-07-2006, 01:33 AM

My installation has an "uninstall" script in the google-earth directory. The other thing I noticed while looking at that script is that apparently the installer is a Loki-style installer. So there will also be an entry in ~/.loki for google-earth.

I've never had any need to uninstall it but the process is there. I looked it over briefly and it seems to uninstall everything by overwriting its own process with something called "loki-uninstall -v"

The uninstall script is commented as "Generated by SetupDB 1.6"

Can someone confirm this so I don't sound foolish?

But that is what it has set up on my system.

It might be worth looking into.

EDIT:

Quote:

Originally Posted by gkiagia

There is an uninstall shell script in the installation directory.

Sorry... I made my post before I saw yours. Let the record show that gkiagia mentioned this here before I did...

gkiagia · 07-07-2006, 07:15 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Carlwill

I just want to remove this application which is not working..anyone know how to remove?

I will tell it in a simpler way:

Code:

cd /path/to/google-earth
./uninstall

jschiwal · 07-07-2006, 08:48 AM

FYI, The podcast Floss Weekly had an interview with Ryan Gordon, who ported Google Earth to Linux.
http://twit.tv/floss8

kalleanka · 07-08-2006, 03:04 AM

not that good it seems! Late and bad. google is just a search engine after all atlease for linuxusers.

carlosinfl · 07-11-2006, 07:30 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by gkiagia

I will tell it in a simpler way:

Code:

cd /path/to/google-earth
./uninstall

Code:

cwilliams@cwilliams:~$ su -
Password:
cwilliams:~# cd /home/cwilliams/google
googleearth   google-earth/
cwilliams:~# cd /home/cwilliams/google-earth/
cwilliams:/home/cwilliams/google-earth# ./uninstall
Could not find a usable uninstall program. Aborting.

zetabill · 07-11-2006, 06:54 PM

@ Carlwill

I ran into the same problem as you did.

Code:

Could not find a usable uninstall program. Aborting.

I was a bit stumped at first and started doing all this unnecessary sifting and testing. I got it to work however.

Try executing the uninstall script as the user that installed the program. I'm assuming that because your install directory is within your home directory that you did not install it as root. The problem is that the uninstall script executes the loki uninstall program, which is located in

Code:

~/.loki/installed/bin/Linux/x86

where the home directory belongs to the user who installed the program. Since I did not install google-earth as root, there is no /root/.loki directory. So by calling the uninstall script as root... especially if you 'su -' rather than 'su'... it will not find the ~/.loki directory. Most importantly, there is a file, google-earth.xml, in that directory that links to the xml file created by the google-earth installer that is the repository for the files it installed.

Also of note: The ~/.googleearth directory (not the program folder, the cache and whatnot) is not removed by the uninstaller because it is created when the program is first run by the user, and not created by the installer.

The ~/.loki directory also remains.

Hope this helps!

carlosinfl · 07-12-2006, 09:06 AM

Man - sometimes the most annoying problem has the basic solution. Thank you very much!

Code:

cwilliams@cwilliams:~/google-earth$ ./uninstall
Product: Google Earth
Installed in /home/cwilliams/google-earth
Uninstalling desktop menu entries...
Uninstalling mimetypes...
Running /usr/bin/update-mime-database /home/cwilliams/.local/share/mime
***
* Updating MIME database in /home/cwilliams/.local/share/mime...
Wrote 0 strings at 20 - 20
Wrote aliases at 20 - 24
Wrote parents at 24 - 28
Wrote literal globs at 28 - 2c
Wrote suffix globs at 2c - 34
Wrote full globs at 34 - 38
Wrote magic at 38 - 44
Wrote namespace list at 44 - 48
***
Google Earth has been successfully uninstalled.

zetabill · 07-12-2006, 07:19 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Carlwill

Man - sometimes the most annoying problem has the basic solution.

Absolutely!!!

Like I said in my post I

Quote:

Originally Posted by zetabill

started doing all this unnecessary sifting and testing

before I got it to work. And I actually got it to work by accident! I had to reinstall the damn thing just to make sure of what I actually did. But I had started out by going line-by-line in the uninstall script and reading up on bash scripting, etc. etc.

Anyway I'm glad I was able to help. Hope you'll get it to work eventually. Either way, Google Maps is almost as good if you can't get the software to work. It just doesn't have all the really cool extras like 3D buildings and such. Plus, Google Maps has completely taken over from Mapquest for me. Mapquest is dead to me now.

gregconquest · 04-03-2007, 10:43 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by gkiagia

I will tell it in a simpler way:

Code:

cd /path/to/google-earth
./uninstall

Thanks, gkiagia. This worked great for me. Google Earth was crashing on kubuntu 7.04 beta.
Greg Conquest

smaaz · 04-07-2007, 05:43 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Carlwill

Man - sometimes the most annoying problem has the basic solution.

You where not the only one with this problem

fakie_flip · 05-17-2007, 09:15 PM

I found the uninstall script, but it is not working. Does anyone know why?

Code:

chris@ubuntu:/opt/google-earth$ sudo ./uninstall 
Could not find a usable uninstall program. Aborting.
chris@ubuntu:/opt/google-earth$

fakie_flip · 05-17-2007, 09:24 PM

Okay, I got it uninstalled except that I had a problem with xprop. If I had known it was going to give me the error, I would have set my DISPLAY variable to :0 before running the script. Why would xprop be needed in an uninstall script?

Code:

chris@ubuntu:/opt/google-earth$ sudo ./uninstall 
Could not find a usable uninstall program. Aborting.
chris@ubuntu:/opt/google-earth$ ./uninstall 
Could not find a usable uninstall program. Aborting.
chris@ubuntu:/opt/google-earth$ sudo su -
root@ubuntu:~# cd /opt/google-earth/
root@ubuntu:/opt/google-earth# ./uninstall 
Product: Google Earth
Installed in /opt/google-earth
Uninstalling desktop menu entries...
xprop:  unable to open display ''
usage:  xprop [-options ...] [[format [dformat]] atom] ...

where options include:
    -grammar                       print out full grammar for command line
    -display host:dpy              the X server to contact
    -id id                         resource id of window to examine
    -name name                     name of window to examine
    -font name                     name of font to examine
    -remove propname               remove a property
    -set propname value            set a property to a given value
    -root                          examine the root window
    -len n                         display at most n bytes of any property
    -notype                        do not display the type field
    -fs filename                   where to look for formats for properties
    -frame                         don't ignore window manager frames
    -f propname format [dformat]   formats to use for property of given name
    -spy                           examine window properties forever

Uninstalling mimetypes...
xprop:  unable to open display ''
usage:  xprop [-options ...] [[format [dformat]] atom] ...

where options include:
    -grammar                       print out full grammar for command line
    -display host:dpy              the X server to contact
    -id id                         resource id of window to examine
    -name name                     name of window to examine
    -font name                     name of font to examine
    -remove propname               remove a property
    -set propname value            set a property to a given value
    -root                          examine the root window
    -len n                         display at most n bytes of any property
    -notype                        do not display the type field
    -fs filename                   where to look for formats for properties
    -frame                         don't ignore window manager frames
    -f propname format [dformat]   formats to use for property of given name
    -spy                           examine window properties forever

Running /usr/bin/update-mime-database /root/.local/share/mime
/usr/bin/update-mime-database: I don't have write permission on /root/.local/share/mime.
Try rerunning me as root.

Aborted
Google Earth has been successfully uninstalled.

root@ubuntu:/opt/google-earth#

trebek · 08-10-2007, 03:53 PM

Um, i am running Slackware 12 on a GeForce4 MX 4000 nvidia card. I got 96.3 driver version. And still get the same error our good friend here specified. Any ideas? I suppose i have to tell the install i am using X11, but how?

Thanks in advance.

gkiagia · 08-11-2007, 05:46 AM

What problem are you reffering to?

If you are talking about xprop, xprop seems to be used internally by loki (which is used internally by the google-earth uninstall script) and it is passed the $DISPLAY environment variable as an argument. However, if a user becomes root with "su -", the $DISPLAY environment variable does not exist in the root shell, and that's not a bug! This is how it should behave!
So, if you just do "su" and then uninstall google-earth it should work.

If that's not the case (I see that fakie_flip is using ubuntu, so he must have logged in as root using "sudo -i"), I suspect it being a bug or a bad configuration option in sudo.

@fakie_flip: xprop is needed because loki shows a progress dialog on X, if it finds a working xserver.