Date: Wednesday, December 16, 2015 21:30:31 -0500 From: Fred Smith fredex@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us
is a continual pain.
I'm attempting to follow the instructions here: http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showpost.php?p=1650497&postcount=27
(yes, I know it's a fedora forum (but the same stupid mistake persists in the GE packages) but apparently the rpmrebuild binary is nolonger available, at least not in Centos (specifically, CentOS-7.2.1511). As I know little about all the various rpm tools, I don't know how to do what is described there without rpmrebuild.
rpmbuild --rebuild seems to ONLY build from a source archive, so it doesn't seem to do what I need.
Advice appreciated!
thanks in advance.
Fred
I don't see a "-rebuild" option used on the page you reference. Rather there's "-ep <local-rpm-file>.rpm", shown in "3.". Trying it just now worked. I got a warning on the rebuild, but a new .rpm was generated, which I was able to install and got google-earth to start up.
If you follow the link on the second line ("I just had to follow the steps",) at the top of the page you reference, the description in "#32" seems to have all the necessary bits, including a link to an rpmrebuild .rpm that will install on centos 7.2 (aka .1511) system.
On Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at 03:14:06AM +0000, Richard wrote:
Date: Wednesday, December 16, 2015 21:30:31 -0500 From: Fred Smith fredex@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us
is a continual pain.
I'm attempting to follow the instructions here: http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showpost.php?p=1650497&postcount=27
(yes, I know it's a fedora forum (but the same stupid mistake persists in the GE packages) but apparently the rpmrebuild binary is nolonger available, at least not in Centos (specifically, CentOS-7.2.1511). As I know little about all the various rpm tools, I don't know how to do what is described there without rpmrebuild.
rpmbuild --rebuild seems to ONLY build from a source archive, so it doesn't seem to do what I need.
Advice appreciated!
thanks in advance.
Fred
I don't see a "-rebuild" option used on the page you reference. Rather there's "-ep <local-rpm-file>.rpm", shown in "3.". Trying it just now worked. I got a warning on the rebuild, but a new .rpm was generated, which I was able to install and got google-earth to start up.
If you follow the link on the second line ("I just had to follow the steps",) at the top of the page you reference, the description in "#32" seems to have all the necessary bits, including a link to an rpmrebuild .rpm that will install on centos 7.2 (aka .1511) system.
yes, I found that rpmrebuild and installed it, and it did what I needed.
I was referring to the rpmbuild command's --rebuild option, prior to having figured out my misunderstanding.
Fred
On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 10:21:37PM -0500, Fred Smith wrote:
On Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at 03:14:06AM +0000, Richard wrote:
Date: Wednesday, December 16, 2015 21:30:31 -0500 From: Fred Smith fredex@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us
is a continual pain.
I'm attempting to follow the instructions here: http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showpost.php?p=1650497&postcount=27
(yes, I know it's a fedora forum (but the same stupid mistake persists in the GE packages) but apparently the rpmrebuild binary is nolonger available, at least not in Centos (specifically, CentOS-7.2.1511). As I know little about all the various rpm tools, I don't know how to do what is described there without rpmrebuild.
rpmbuild --rebuild seems to ONLY build from a source archive, so it doesn't seem to do what I need.
Advice appreciated!
thanks in advance.
Fred
I don't see a "-rebuild" option used on the page you reference. Rather there's "-ep <local-rpm-file>.rpm", shown in "3.". Trying it just now worked. I got a warning on the rebuild, but a new .rpm was generated, which I was able to install and got google-earth to start up.
If you follow the link on the second line ("I just had to follow the steps",) at the top of the page you reference, the description in "#32" seems to have all the necessary bits, including a link to an rpmrebuild .rpm that will install on centos 7.2 (aka .1511) system.
yes, I found that rpmrebuild and installed it, and it did what I needed.
I was referring to the rpmbuild command's --rebuild option, prior to having figured out my misunderstanding.
For any of you who may be wishing Google would release a version of Earth for Linux that actually works, the recipe on the page referred to above actually works. I've just gone thru it all and I now have a mostly-working GoogleEarth.
The only thing I've noticed so far that is still broken is that the borders around the panorimo images (click on the little blue squares) is not drawn properly, and you can't see the buttons in the top window border. but they're still there and work if you can find 'em.
I love playing around in Google Earth. something in the news, or on one of the Nasa sites that shows earth imagery will pique my interest and suddenly I've spent a couple hours (or more) looking at stuff in GE.
Fred
On 12/16/2015 8:00 PM, Fred Smith wrote:
I love playing around in Google Earth. something in the news, or on one of the Nasa sites that shows earth imagery will pique my interest and suddenly I've spent a couple hours (or more) looking at stuff in GE.
As I don't use Linux desktops for web browsing, I honestly don't know, but doesn't Google Maps work in Firefox or whatever on CentOS? It has an 'earth view' which is the same dataset as Google Earth, albeit with less 3D. AFAIK, this just requires decent javascript support to operate. I rarely fire up the full Google Earth anymore.
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