JUN
13
2006

Native Google Earth for Linux

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We knew that some big companies like Adobe or Google developed some of their applications for MS Windows with the Qt toolkit. But they didn't take full advantage of Qt's cross-platform sweetness. Until now. Google released yesterday Google Earth Beta 4 and if you look closely at their download page there is a Linux version available. This is not using some Wine wrapper as Picasa before but is a native Qt 3 application. Time for other companies to wake it? Hello Adobe!

Comments

It Qt? Really?

Hmm, that really makes me wonder why I see all sorts of pango/gdk errors (and a crash a little later) prior to seeing the first screen..
Is the license screen maybe not Qt based?

By Thomas Zander at Tue, 06/13/2006 - 15:11

The application is Qt, however they use the LokiGames installer which uses GTK/GTK2.

http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/showthreaded.php?Cat=0&Number=447516&page=0&vc=&PHPSESSID=#Post447516

Thats the proof for the app using Qt. I won't bother posting the LDD for the installer.

By aaronkrill at Tue, 06/13/2006 - 16:20

Were you (or anybody) be able to use it successfully on SUSE 10.1 running on AMD64? If I install it and try to run as user, I get a
"symlink: Permission denied" error. As root, I can run it, but it crashes very soon (I just searched for Romania and after a while it crashed):

Stacktrace from glibc:
./googleearth-bin(__gxx_personality_v0+0x212) [0x804ab32]
./googleearth-bin [0x804b133]
[0xffffe500]
/data/home/andris/google-earth/libevll.so(_ZN5earth4evll9CacheNode8populateEPNS0_5CacheEPNS_10HeapBufferEPNS0_13CacheNodeTypeE+0x33) [0xf300d893]
/data/home/andris/google-earth/libevll.so(_ZN5earth4evll5Cache18loaderNodePopulateEPNS0_9CacheNodeEPNS_10HeapBufferE+0x50) [0xf300d950]
/data/home/andris/google-earth/libevll.so(_ZN5earth4evll9NetLoader17finishHttpRequestEPNS0_11NLQueueElemEmPNS_10HeapBufferE+0x1a2) [0xf30d82e2]
/data/home/andris/google-earth/libevll.so(_ZN5earth4evll9NetLoader12asyncHandlerEv+0x2ef) [0xf30df4df]
./libbase.so(_ZN5earth11AsyncThread12asyncHandlerEPNS0_10ThreadInfoE+0x53) [0xf7937f13]
./libbase.so(_ZN5earth11AsyncThread9asyncFuncEPv+0x28) [0xf7937fd8]
/lib/libpthread.so.0 [0xf624934b]
/lib/libc.so.6(__clone+0x5e) [0xf631565e]

By amantia at Sun, 06/18/2006 - 19:58