Hi Folks. I've been having some issues with google earth not being able to start when launched from the desktop. It would sometimes run without crashing if launched from the command line in a terminal window, but lots of repeated errors were generated. I found the solution on one of the Fedora forums and I thought I'd post it here in case anyone else is in the same boat. Instructions as follows (adjusted for oS 13.1 x86_64 as installed on my machine; 1. You need the following up to date packages installed in your system: 1A. freeimage (the openSuSE package is libfreeimage3) 1B. qt-x11 1C. qt 1D. qtwebkit 1E. qt-devel (temporarily for a shim library creation - can be removed afterwards) 2. Install the current GE via the rpm (the forum post mentions modifying it to remove a /usr/bin dependency but I did not need to do that). 3. In /opt/google/earth/free delete all four libQt* libraries. 4. If you try to run googleearth now you will get an error; libbase.so: undefined symbol: _Z34BasicAtomicInt_fetchAndAddOrderedPVii. The missing function can be generated as follows; 4A. Create a file (the author called it baifaao.cpp but the name is not that important) with this content; ================= Code ============================= /* amirpli 2013/11/28 */ #include <QtCore/QAtomicInt> extern "C" { int _Z34QBasicAtomicInt_fetchAndAddOrderedPVii(QAtomicInt* a, int b) { return a->fetchAndAddOrdered(b); } } =============== End Code ========================= 4B. Compile it and create the shim library with; gcc -O3 -fPIC --shared baifaao.cpp -o baifaao.so Place baifaao.so in /opt/google/earth/free. 5. Edit (as root) the file /opt/google/earth/free/googleearth; add the following line immediately before the line starting with LD_LIBRARY_PATH; LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib64/libgreeimage.so.3:./baifaao.so \ Note 1: Make sure there is no whitespace following the '\' at the end of that line. Note 2: Make sure there are no blank lines between the line you added and the LD_LIBRARY_PATH line. After following these instructions Google Earth now starts and runs properly again. No crashes so far. The forum post is here: http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showpost.php?p=1678303&postcount=60 Regards, Rodney. -- ============================================================== Rodney Baker VK5ZTV rodney.baker@iinet.net.au ============================================================== -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org