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diff --git a/multimedia/GoogleEarth/README b/multimedia/GoogleEarth/README index 4b0c3f3817a4a..b87f14f6383d1 100644 --- a/multimedia/GoogleEarth/README +++ b/multimedia/GoogleEarth/README @@ -19,11 +19,7 @@ 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) 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. - -2) Google updates the GoogleEarth bin-file without changing the download +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). @@ -32,6 +28,18 @@ NOTEs: of GoogleEarth than what the script is designed to use. Please notify the maintainer if this is the case. -3) GoogleEarth now requires that you have OpenGL drivers installed on your +2) Google Earth 6 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) 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. + +4) 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. + |