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+google-earth (Google's famous virtual globe)
+
+Google Earth is a virtual globe program. It maps a version of the
+Earth by the superimposition of images obtained from satellite 
+imagery, aerial photography and GIS over a 3D globe. You point 
+and zoom to any place on the planet that you want to explore.
+Satellite images and local facts zoom into view. Tap into Google
+search to show local points of interest and facts. Zoom to a 
+specific address to check out an apartment or hotel. View driving
+directions and even fly along your route.
+
+The degree of resolution available is based somewhat on the points 
+of interest, but most land (except for some islands) is covered in at 
+least 15 meters of resolution. 
+
+When running GoogleEarth for the first time, you will see an error
+message stating that it is unable to find the Bitstream Vera fonts.
+This should be safe to ignore - it will use other fonts (and the
+DejaVu fonts included with Slackware are based on the Bitstream fonts).
+
+NOTES:
+1) Google updates the GoogleEarth bin-file without changing the download
+   link location and they don't use version numbering in the filename 
+   (the version is more an internal numbering).  
+   
+   Therefore, this script is subject to failing (and a different MD5SUM) 
+   at any time due to the fact that you might get a newer version 
+   of GoogleEarth than what the script is designed to use. Please notify 
+   the maintainer if this is the case.
+
+2) Google Earth 7 is "LSB compliant" meaning it was built on a LSB system. 
+   Slackware however does not have that symlink which is part of the LSB 3.0 
+   specification. You'll need to create the symlink manually after installing 
+   the package:
+    
+            ln -sf /lib/ld-linux.so.2 /lib/ld-lsb.so.3
+
+3) Google Earth tends to crash when the 65-fonts-persion.conf is available on 
+   the system. aPlease remove /etc/fonts/conf.d/65-fonts-persian.conf prior 
+   launching this application. The easiest way to do this is:
+
+            mv /etc/fonts/conf.d/65-fonts-persian.conf \
+               /etc/fonts/conf.d/65-fonts-persian.conf.old
+
+4) GoogleEarth is a 32bit application only. You need to have the 32bit
+   compatibility packages installed to have this work on a 64bit system. 
+   Otherwise you'll just see "no such file or directory" errors. I am aware 
+   that Google puts a 64bits debian package out, but this is a 32bits package
+   with a 64bit wrapper for debian that installs multilib
+
+5) GoogleEarth now requires that you have OpenGL drivers installed on your 
+   system (and Xorg configured to use them). Not doing so will cause X 
+   to crash.
+