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Topic: Statler amd64 - how to install google-earth and skype

Just in case I am not the last one to get these two apps working under x86_64

1) install nvidia driver. richs-lxh posting on these forums always works for me:

http://crunchbanglinux.org/forums/topic … r-squeeze/

2) install (from repositories.)
nvidia-glx-ia32
lsb-core

3) download the google-earth deb from the google earth website and install with gdebi
sudo gdebi google-earth-stable_current_amd64.deb

4) job done


Skype (if you have to use this because everyone else does)

1) download the linux skype i386 .deb from the skype website

2) force the install

sudo dpkg -i --force-all skype-debian_2.1.0.81-1_i386.deb

in the terminal there appears a message along the lines skype depends on libxssl. Ignore and logout, login again (so the icon appears in xfce menu)

3) job done.


Note: works in lmde christmas release too - though I think I manually had to install ia32-libs-gtk which is already in crunchbang.

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Re: Statler amd64 - how to install google-earth and skype

Google earth:

http://crunchbanglinux.org/forums/topic … n-statler/

Skype:

http://crunchbanglinux.org/forums/topic … e-to-work/

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Re: Statler amd64 - how to install google-earth and skype

Thanks anonymous. richs-lxh 's instruction has never worked for me. Neither have many, many other proposed solutions.
My posting is just to prove that even a blind hen will eventually find the corn.

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Re: Statler amd64 - how to install google-earth and skype

UkDkDe wrote:

Just in case I am not the last one to get these two apps working under x86_64

1) install nvidia driver. richs-lxh posting on these forums always works for me:

<snip>

Shouldn't you edit that, then....? wink

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Re: Statler amd64 - how to install google-earth and skype

@ unia

to be clear - richs-lxh install instruction for nvidia has always worked
unfortunately, his google-earth solution (link in anonymous' post didn't work. It seems. google-earth is a bit of a moving target )

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Re: Statler amd64 - how to install google-earth and skype

O I see now. Sorry smile

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Re: Statler amd64 - how to install google-earth and skype

UkDkDe wrote:

Just in case I am not the last one to get these two apps working under x86_64

1) install nvidia driver. richs-lxh posting on these forums always works for me:

http://crunchbanglinux.org/forums/topic … r-squeeze/

2) install (from repositories.)
nvidia-glx-ia32
lsb-core

3) download the google-earth deb from the google earth website and install with gdebi
sudo gdebi google-earth-stable_current_amd64.deb

4) job done

I just tried this, skipping the nvidia part since I don't have nvidia HW in this box, and when I try to run Google Earth nothing happens. Trying to run it from CLI I am told:

/usr/bin/google-earth: 43: ./googleearth-bin: not found

Ayone encountered this?

I have followed links and the faulty (??) shell script called googleearth resides in /opt/google/earth/free which is also where googleearth-bin resides.

The script googlearth contains some 30 lines of active code so I think it is more likely I made a mistake than there is a problem with the script. But where did I go wrong?

/Martin (Google Earth works just fine on my old 32-bit #! 9.04 system.)

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Re: Statler amd64 - how to install google-earth and skype

@ MartinRF

The method worked for nvidia. Both lsb-core and nvidia-glx-ia32 were needed (I tried installing google-earth when only one of the these were installed and google-earth didn't work. Either no install or the google-earth frame with no earth inside). Is there an equivalent to nvidia-glx-ia32 driver for your card?

I assume you do have x86_64 arch  (check with "uname -a"). If you are using i686 distro then you could try installing the googleearth packages drom medibuntu repository. Works no problem for me - but some peoplw will undoubtedly frown on the method.