On 6/12/06, Shawn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mark Carlson wrote: > > On 6/12/06, Shawn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Mitchell Brown wrote: > >>> Nope! Picasa is built on top of wine (although you don't need it > >>> installed, it comes with it) but Google Earth is completely standalone! > >>> There's a .bin you download. chmod +x it and just run it. Its an install > >>> wizard (ick, seems Windows-ish to me!!!). > >> > >> I end up with an error: > >> > >> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/bin$ ./googleearth > >> ./googleearth-bin: error while loading shared libraries: > >> libXcursor.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory > >> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/bin$ locate libXcursor.so.1 > >> /usr/lib/libXcursor.so.1 > >> /usr/lib/libXcursor.so.1.0.2 > >> > >> So, I do have the libraries, just not where GE is expecting them.... > >> Any ideas? > > > > Maybe I'm missing something, but did you try using ldd? > > # ldd googleearth-bin > > Or is there a chance it's linked statically? That wouldn't make sense > > (to me) since it's looking for modules on your system... > > > > -Mark > > No joy on ldd: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/bin/google-earth$ ldd googleearth > not a dynamic executable > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/bin/google-earth$ cd .. > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/bin$ ldd googleearth > not a dynamic executable > > Maybe I should try to run the install script again, and leave the defaults?
Ok, just to make sure, you did type in what I said, right? :-) # ldd googleearth-bin (note the -bin) You said it yourself, googleearth is an install _script_ (and hence, not a dynamic executable) -Mark _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
