Google Earth on linux?

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quellthrix · Post by **quellthrix** » Mon Oct 31, 2005 11:19 pm

As we all know, Google Earth is, if nothing else, very entertaining to use and I've very much been wanting to use it without having to reboot into Windows XP. Has anyone tried to do this? I've attempted the install it with both wine and cedega with no success. Thanks for anyone who might be able to shed some light on whether or not this is possible.

reynolds531 · Post by **reynolds531** » Mon Oct 31, 2005 11:24 pm

Can't help you with google earth, but apparently there's an effort underfoot to make NASA's World Wind (a similar program) cross-platform:

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=107508

dan_aka_jack · Post by **dan_aka_jack** » Thu Nov 10, 2005 12:28 pm

I, too, would love to see Google Earth ported to Linux (and Portage, of course!). Is there any news?

Thanks,
Jack

taurus · Post by **taurus** » Thu Nov 10, 2005 2:36 pm

I think Google Earth depends heavily on DirectX so porting it to Linux could be a little more trouble. On the other hand, NASA's World Wind seems to be a winner to me...

dan_aka_jack · Post by **dan_aka_jack** » Thu Nov 10, 2005 5:22 pm

Take a look at this thread... there's already an open-source "world-wind type" program:

http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-28 ... ml#2867569

Hawklad · Post by **Hawklad** » Thu Nov 10, 2005 5:33 pm

I have no source but I read somewhere a rumour that they were releasing a Linux port in early 2006. Could just be a rumor though,

magor · Post by **magor** » Thu Nov 10, 2005 5:36 pm

Runs with wine-0.9 without problems. (slower of course)

MxxCon · Post by **MxxCon** » Thu Nov 10, 2005 9:02 pm

taurus wrote:I think Google Earth depends heavily on DirectX so porting it to Linux could be a little more trouble. On the other hand, NASA's World Wind seems to be a winner to me...

actually default (and prefered) rendering mode in google earth is opengl.
google earth is pretty tightly integrated with IE for all those .kml links opening inside of the app itself.
so they'll have to somehow figure out how to separate that.. that seems to be one of the bigger roadblocks

Progman3K · Post by **Progman3K** » Sat Nov 12, 2005 6:46 pm

InstallShield Wizard pops up, the progress bar goes from 0 to 100% and then a Windows messagebox pops up:

Google Earth - InstallShield Wizard
ERROR: Could not load [c:\windows\system\psapi.dll]

And once I click the OK button, another Windows messagebox pops up:

Google Earth - InstallShield Wizard
This operating system is not supported by Google Earth. The installer will now close.

These are the console messages when Wine exits:

err:ole:dispatch_rpc no apartment found for ipid {ffffffff-ffff-ffff-0d00-00000a000000}
err:rpc:I_RpcReceive we got fault packet with status 6be
err:ole:dispatch_rpc no apartment found for ipid {ffffffff-ffff-ffff-0b00-00000a000000}
err:rpc:I_RpcReceive we got fault packet with status 6be
err:ole:dispatch_rpc no apartment found for ipid {ffffffff-ffff-ffff-0d00-00000a000000}
err:rpc:I_RpcReceive we got fault packet with status 6be

Does GoogleEarth only work with Wine 0.9?

quellthrix · Post by **quellthrix** » Sat Nov 12, 2005 7:52 pm

Thanks for the information about world wind. I'll look into it.

Until then, just because I do get bored sometimes, I've been trying to install Google Earth under wine-0.9. My install crashes at the same as Progman3K's, so I'll probably just keep messing around in wine, replacing dll's and changing windows versions.

Progman, keep me posted if you manage to get things working. I can't meddle to much in my wine, because I've got Diablo II running near perfectly with alsa, so I don't want to destroy my hard work just to get Google Earth running and have D2 crash on me.

Progman3K · Post by **Progman3K** » Sun Nov 13, 2005 3:58 pm

I was able to get the GoogleEarth setup to advance a little further by running

Code: Select all

winecfg

and specifying that the GoogleEarth setup needed to run as a winxp application.
It still gives the first error, about psapi.dll not being found, but then the setup goes on and lets me pick the destination I want to install to.

Once I click the final NEXT to start copying the app files into the installation directory, the progress bar starts at 0% and goes to about 2% before stalling.

The copying never completes.

I installed World Wind2 instead, and that works perfectly.

Schmolch · Post by **Schmolch** » Wed Nov 16, 2005 12:07 am

magor wrote:Runs with wine-0.9 without problems. (slower of course)

How did you do it and can you provide a Screenshot to proove it?

[update]

There is a wonderfull howto at http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Install_Go ... _with_wine
and it really works

Since the menus do not work, does anybody know if there are keyboard-shortcuts for them?

williamjonah · Post by **williamjonah** » Tue Nov 22, 2005 3:33 am

Does anyone know if there is a way to get google earth onto Gentoo? I trie4d wine, but that didn't work very well.

Will

SZwarts · Post by **SZwarts** » Tue Nov 22, 2005 3:52 am

It is rumoured that a linux version will be released very soon...

The wikipedia page says:

Google Earth ... and is currently available for use on personal computers running Microsoft Windows. Linux and Mac OS versions have been announced for the end of 2005.

And the end of 2005, that is now... So I guess pretty soon a linux native version will be available.

williamjonah · Post by **williamjonah** » Tue Nov 22, 2005 4:20 am

Thanks

Post by **pjp** » Tue Nov 22, 2005 5:57 pm

Moved from Desktop Environments

RaZoR1394 · Post by **RaZoR1394** » Sat Dec 10, 2005 4:39 pm

I managed it to install and run according to the tips on gentoo-wiki.com. But now when it starts it complains about not being able to connect to the server (kh.google.com). It can't be a firewall problem as the Google support says because it works fine in Windows XP.

MxxCon · Post by **MxxCon** » Sat Dec 10, 2005 9:24 pm

there's mac version of google earth floating around , hopefully that means linux native one is not too far off

mikegpitt · Post by **mikegpitt** » Sat Dec 10, 2005 10:46 pm

I've always been suprised that google doesn't simultaniously release their apps for linux, since they are a very pro-linux company.

Zepp · Post by **Zepp** » Wed Dec 14, 2005 12:35 am

Google Earth is pretty fun to play with, hope a linux version is on the horizon

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yamakawa · Post by **yamakawa** » Wed Dec 14, 2005 9:13 am

I have tested both 0.9.2 and 0.9.3.
0.9.3 won't make the G.E. work at all, no matter what WINEDLLOVERRIDES was given.
0.9.2 works but there is a problem of the panels as already known.
Hope Google will release genuine Linux version of this and we enjoy it!

brims · Post by **brims** » Wed Dec 14, 2005 10:21 am

Google uses Linux internally very extensively if I'm not mistaken. Now if that is true why don't they extrenally support it? As a large entity, it would be nice if Google not only took from but gave to the community. That's just my opinion. I know they aren't obligated to do so if they don't release their changes for public use, but if they are taking advantage of the community it would be nice if we got something out of them.

reynolds531 · Post by **reynolds531** » Wed Dec 14, 2005 6:20 pm

Didn't google give back to the community with their "Summer of Code" program? I was under the impression that they gave grants to a lot of open-source programmers.

mikegpitt · Post by **mikegpitt** » Wed Dec 14, 2005 8:48 pm

I think google gives back also, as most of their tools are webbased, and usable under Linux. I jsut think it would be great to see a company liek Google, who seems very anti-microsoft to release things for Linux simultaniously with Windows releases. I think it would send a nice message to the public and more important to the financial markets.

brims · Post by **brims** » Thu Dec 15, 2005 5:13 am

garyyoung3 wrote:Didn't google give back to the community with their "Summer of Code" program? I was under the impression that they gave grants to a lot of open-source programmers.

True, I forgot about that. Made an ass out of myself.

mikegpitt wrote:I think google gives back also, as most of their tools are webbased, and usable under Linux. I jsut think it would be great to see a company liek Google, who seems very anti-microsoft to release things for Linux simultaniously with Windows releases. I think it would send a nice message to the public and more important to the financial markets.

That was mainly what I was talking about. They release Google Earth and Picaso and Hello for Windows, nothing for us Linux users. Yes, we could go through the Wine install and configuration, but I personally would rather not go through that.

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