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[SOLVED]unable to see map on googleearth amd64

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jay
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[SOLVED]unable to see map on googleearth amd64

#1 Post by jay »

hey ya'll, Iinstalled googleearth without any problems on my sid amd64 box, and everything appears to work fine, the program runs and apparently works, the only thing is that the map is not visible, where the earth's globe should be I can only see the black background, I have the nvidia drivers installed and my box works beautifully except for this little thing.

any ideas on what I could do?
thanks.
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Re: unable to see map on googleearth amd64

#2 Post by sedonix »

Doesn't work and I doubt anyone's going to do anything about it. But, hey, don't let me stop you. Misery loves company! I also have sid/64AMD/Nvidia.
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Re: unable to see map on googleearth amd64

#3 Post by StanTheMan »

Google-Earth is a proprietary application. I have never been able to install it on Lenny or Squeeze. The only disro I have installed it on is Linux-Mint .

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Re: unable to see map on googleearth amd64

#4 Post by 93_Burrito »

Jay, how did you install the Nvidia drivers? Google Earth is a 32-bit app, and requires Nvidia's 32-bit compatibility libraries to work properly on your amd64 setup.

Google Earth works fine on my 64-bit Squeeze box. I installed the Nvidia drivers manually for my 9800GT...

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#5 Post by bmc5311 »

works for me too - testing amd64, i installed the nvidia 32bit libs as well.

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Re: unable to see map on googleearth amd64

#6 Post by craigevil »

install ia32-libs-gtk lib32nss-mdns ia32-libs lib32ncurses5 packages.
Use the googleearth-package to build the .deb then dpkg -i to install the .deb

See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=510548
http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?p=214470
http://blog.irwan.name/?p=283
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Re: unable to see map on googleearth amd64

#7 Post by meho_r »

craigevil wrote:install ia32-libs-gtk lib32nss-mdns ia32-libs lib32ncurses5 packages.
Use the googleearth-package to build the .deb then dpkg -i to install the .deb
I had the same problem (all these packages were installed). But after I did as noted before and installed nvidia-glx-ia32 package, GE finally worked.

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Re: unable to see map on googleearth amd64

#8 Post by jay »

I had done everything posted above except for meho_r's solution, that solved the issue and GE works great now, thanks.
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#9 Post by eric1959 »

Thanks too !
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#10 Post by bazcor »

Yeah meho_r's solution worked for me too, near to giving up on this one. Thanks meho_r, really appreciated.
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#11 Post by stevepusser »

Google now supplies a deb package for GE that will also add a repository for the program, much like Chrome.
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Re: [SOLVED]unable to see map on googleearth amd64

#12 Post by Chili.Willy »

Thanks, craigevil and meho_r.

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Re: [SOLVED]unable to see map on googleearth amd64

#13 Post by Kevin Seise »

For those of us on AMD/ATI systems, install the fglrx-glx-ia32 package. It works for me after months of hunting, this fix worked! Thank you so much!

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