On Friday 04 November 2005 08:38 am, Ron Hunter-Duvar wrote: > On November 3, 2005 21:38, Miark wrote: > > On Sat, 29 Oct 2005 12:54:18 -0700, Aron wrote: > > > having been looking for a linux equivalent to Google Earth > > > I found this > > > http://freshmeat.net/projects/earth3d/ > > > there was an RPM available ..it loaded and ran :-) > > > anyone else using it? > > > > There's a Mandriva RPM for it, too. I installed it and tried > > it, but the interface is pretty bad. I haven't used it since. > > > > Miark > > I tried the Mandriva rpm under 10.1, and nothing happened. ps showed the > program was running, but nothing ever appeared on the screen. > > When I started it from the command line, it stopped after giving the > message "CONNECTTOSERVER". I'm guessing for whatever reason it couldn't > contact the server. I wonder if the firewall is getting in the way (didn't > think it would stop an outgoing connection, but I'm no expert in this > area). > > I noticed that the Mandriva rpm is for version 1.0.2, but the latest source > release is 1.0.4. Don't have the time to try building from source. I just downloaded the .tar.gz file and installed it it runs but I don't know how to connect to the more intresting servers GRASS perhaps?
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