On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 6:49 PM, Lanny Marcus <lmmailinglists at gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 3:48 PM, MHR <mhullrich at gmail.com> wrote: >> On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 11:22 AM, Lanny Marcus <lmmailinglists at gmail.com> wrote: >>> The version of Google Earth I installed last December was working >>> great this morning. Then, I decided to update to the latest version >>> and when I tried to do that with yum, I didn't have the right name for >>> the package (now, I think it may be "google-earth"), so I downloaded >>> the file (GoogleEarthLinux.bin) and installed with "sh >>> GoogleEarthLinux.bin" The latest version is now installed and I can >>> launch it, without any problem, but, it does not seem to >>> work......... :-) > >> Where did you get this? > > Mark: I got it from google.com I have google among my yum > repositories, but I couldn't remember what the package was called, so > I > couldn't "yum update" and I downloaded and installed their file, but > it won't go. It isn't getting any date from the Google Earth servers. > That > worked perfectly, with the older version I had been using. Lanny > I tried to install google-earth with yum but either that isn't the name of the package or it is not available in the Google repository. Then, I did some reading on the Google site. Question: How do I determine whether or not the CPU in this box (I think it's an Intel Celeron 2.6 GHz) supports SSE2 or not? I suspect the CPU does *not* support SSE2. Posting some information below: >Hi Folks, >After taking a peek and looking at some of the issues in this thread: >http://groups.google.com/group/earth-linux/browse_thread/thread/b2a5e... >I thought you guys deserved an update. The long and short of it is >that Google Earth 4.3 only works in Linux on machines with processors >that support SSE2. This means a P4, A64, or greater is now required. I >too was sad to see my little Athlon XP-M machine unable to run 4.3 >with all of it's beautiful sunlight and atmosphere effects. >However, I'd like to let you know that we're aware of this and we're >looking into getting 4.2 available for you folks! >Thanks for your patience, >ERR [lanny at dell2400 ~]$ sudo yum install google-earth Password: Loading "priorities" plugin Loading "fastestmirror" plugin Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile * google: dl.google.com * rpmforge: apt.sw.be * extras: mirrors.liquidweb.com * updates: ftp.usf.edu * base: styx.biochem.wfubmc.edu * addons: mirror.linux.duke.edu * adobe-linux-i386: linuxdownload.adobe.com 282 packages excluded due to repository priority protections Setting up Install Process Parsing package install arguments No package google-earth available. Nothing to do [lanny at dell2400 ~]$