googleearth workaround possible?

EasterParade · l33t Joined: 26 Jul 2003 Posts: 938

I know this has been dealt with many times. We all know that Google is the culprit.
But shouldn´t it be possible to find a - dirty - workaround?

bastibasti · Guru Joined: 27 Nov 2006 Posts: 581

easiest way would be to create an own overlay. Ever used an overlay??

Then copy the sci-geosciences/googleearth folder to your overlay and rename the latest ebuild to 7.1.1.1889 or whatever
then you have to recreate the manifest by using

EasterParade · l33t Joined: 26 Jul 2003 Posts: 938

Yeah, used overlay already but never a personal. Overlay sounds like a good idea
idea: does not interfere too much with portage.
Might give it a try :wink:

But what do I do with the folder sci-geosciences/googleearth in /usr/portage/ ?

EasterParade · l33t Joined: 26 Jul 2003 Posts: 938

Another silly question:
http://dl.google.com/dl/earth/client/current/google-earth-stable_current_amd64.deb
is where you get the recent version from.
But how do I know the version number, so that I can properly name the ebuild?
Or do I miss something here?

EasterParade · l33t Joined: 26 Jul 2003 Posts: 938

Awesome, thank you bastibasti, it worked.
Photos won´t get loaded and I haven´t tested everything yet
but at least I´ve got it back.

padoor · Advocate Joined: 30 Dec 2005 Posts: 4185 Location: india

epsilon72 · Guru Joined: 20 Sep 2007 Posts: 568

As bastibasti said the easiest way to emerge googleearth is to copy the ebuild to your own overlay. However, if googleearth is very crash-prone on your system like it is on mine, you might want to consider copying the windows version of googleearth from a Windows install and running it with wine - it uses opengl, doesn't crash, and photos even work!

platojones · Posted: Wed Jan 15, 2014 4:45 pm Post subject:

EasterParade · l33t Joined: 26 Jul 2003 Posts: 938

I couldn´t ever get Wine to work properly. But if the Windows version runs fine
from within Wine I might give it another chance. At least it sounds like a better idea
and worth trying.

@padoor
If you still want to go the overlay-way this is a nice Howto :
http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Overlay/Local_overlay
Don´t forget to copy the "files" folder too; because of the patches in there.
I did the

Aiken · Posted: Wed Jan 15, 2014 9:28 pm Post subject:

The steps I just used to try the latest google earth

1. Download the latest stable. In this example the 32 bit version
2. ar x ../google-earth-stable_current_i386.deb
3. tar zxf control.tar.gz
4. cat control and check the Version line which I found to be 7.1.2.2041
5. cd /usr/local/portage/sci-geosciences/googleearth
6. cp googleearth-7.1.1.1888.ebuild googleearth-7.1.2.2041.ebuild
7. ebuild googleearth-7.1.2.2041.ebuild digest

edit: in the files directory also cp googleearth-7.1.1.1888-desktopfile.patch googleearth-7.1.2.2041-desktopfile.patch

Mine use to crash a lot. It would segfault every time if http_proxy was set when trying to use the curl library. These days I use

EasterParade · l33t Joined: 26 Jul 2003 Posts: 938

How do you install googlearth on wine? :oops:

platojones · Posted: Thu Jan 16, 2014 3:29 pm Post subject:

Well, as epsilon72 mentioned, you have to pull it after it's installed on a Windows PC (a VM works nicely)...I couldn't find any way to get the native installer to work in wine. From the Windows system, just copy C:\Program Files\Google\Google Earth directory to you're virtual 'C:' drive in your .wine directory. That's it. You can then run the googleearth.exe executable under wine. I'm running KDE and set up a desktop icon for it.

EasterParade · l33t Joined: 26 Jul 2003 Posts: 938

platojones said:

toralf · Posted: Thu Jan 16, 2014 7:21 pm Post subject:

Why creating a new ebuild ? Even googleearth-7.1.1.1888.ebuild does download the latest GE source code

EasterParade · l33t Joined: 26 Jul 2003 Posts: 938

I am curious toralf, what are you referring to?

toralf · Posted: Thu Jan 16, 2014 8:06 pm Post subject:

Chiitoo · Posted: Thu Jan 16, 2014 8:42 pm Post subject:

With regards to Wine, I tried version 7.1.2.2041 (no thanks to Google Earth download-page; oh you, Google you, how thee manage to find new ways to annoy me).

Installed and runs just fine 'out-of-the-box' here (tested with Wine 1.7.10 and 1.7.10-290-g2b8e900 in both, 32 and 64-bit prefixes).

Graphics are messed up... but that wasn't the point! ^^;
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Aiken · Posted: Thu Jan 16, 2014 10:04 pm Post subject:

EasterParade · l33t Joined: 26 Jul 2003 Posts: 938

Chitoo said:

toralf · Posted: Fri Jan 17, 2014 4:21 pm Post subject:

Aiken · Posted: Fri Jan 17, 2014 8:51 pm Post subject:

Don't need to convince me that works. You are trying to tell me it works while quoting where I said I have done this so I already know it works. Why google earth is masked is old news.

You also quoted my use case. Why would I want to manually upgrade google earth on each of those computer when a version bump of the ebuild in my overlay would automatically trigger an upgrade on those 6 computers? If the version number on the ebuild is left the same I would have to manually upgrade each.
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Chiitoo · Posted: Fri Jan 17, 2014 9:06 pm Post subject:

musv · Advocate Joined: 01 Dec 2002 Posts: 3337 Location: de

Hmpf, is Google going back to Windows?

Google Earth Linux version isn't usable in any way. It crashes all the time. So I tried Chiitoos approch and downloaded the Windows version. It installs, starts and runs smoothly. Even the fotos and streetview work perfectly. Only the 3d buildings cause some freezing problems.

Shame on you, Google!

EasterParade · l33t Joined: 26 Jul 2003 Posts: 938

Chitoo said:

Fitzcarraldo · Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2014 9:37 pm Post subject: