-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: don fisher Gesendet: Mi. 17.02.2016 19:21 An: opensuse@opensuse.org Betreff: [opensuse] Status of Google Earth

I was watching some tennis matches and wanted to refresh my image of some of the countries, particularly around the Aegean. When I was in school, most of these were loaded into a region labeled "behind the iron curtain". I looked on line and can do not see any repos with Google Earth in it. I see links for Fedora and others. Can somebody explain Google Earth. I tried to RTFM an was not successful.

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Hi Don, I will try. Google Earth is IMO very badly maintained for Linux. If you install it it will draw in its own repo (you will have to trust them). The politics of stable is not very clear (with a mismatch of what they install and what is proposed by the repo). If you use any other standard desktop language then English my experience is that "flying in" to a place is not supported and you land in Saharan Africa all the time, even if you want to see Bulgaria. The program is statically linked to the library, was never ported over KDE3 and has still libraries linking to qt3. After the install of the rpm (which is a common rpm for Red Hat, Opensuse and other rpm based OS) after when doing the next update in yast you are going to be asked to trust the signature of the repo of Google Earth. So as it is NOSS, you will have to use their repo. If you want not satellite but nice maps, you can use the program marble. It works astonishingly well (especially in the case Google Earth does not work at all). At least for Nvidia cards I recall that for Google Earth you need NOSS driver from Nvidia (nouveau did not work for me at the time). YMMV. Hope that helped a bit. --- Mail & Cloud Made in Germany mit 3 GB Speicher! https://email.freenet.de/mail/Uebersicht?epid=e9900000450 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org