On 03/03/2013 07:35 PM, Fred Smith wrote: > On Mon, Mar 04, 2013 at 10:56:26AM +0800, Earl Ramirez wrote: >> On Sun, 2013-03-03 at 21:49 -0500, Fred Smith wrote: >>> Has anyone gotten 64-bit google earth to run on el6 x86_64? >>> >>> It dies almost immediately, complaining for lack of ld-lsb.so.3. >>> Perusing user forums at google I see a few others with the problem, >>> but no (working) solutions. >>> >>> Thanks in advance! >>> >> Fred, >> >> You will need to install the following 32 bit packages >> >> 1. redhat-lsb.i686 >> 2. mesa-libGL.i686 >> 3. mesa-libGLU.i686 >> >> I get this to work on my laptop a few days ago. > thanks Earl, I'll give it a whirl. > > I did "ldd /opt/google/earth/free/googleearth-bin" and got back a list > of a dozen or so "not found" items, would you be willing to check on > your system and see what you get back? (that might be because it has > not been thru the preceding shellscript that might set up some ENV > to point to the right places, I suppose.) > you will also need to rename /etc/fonts/conf.d/65-fonts-persian.conf to something that doesn't end in .conf. there is a bug in google earth that breaks with large xml font config files that are larger than 8k. you could probably also remove comments and so forth from the file to make it smaller if you need to have persian fonts :-).