diff --git a/multimedia/GoogleEarth/GoogleEarth.SlackBuild b/multimedia/GoogleEarth/GoogleEarth.SlackBuild
index 311e40192b..44e3574253 100644
--- a/multimedia/GoogleEarth/GoogleEarth.SlackBuild
+++ b/multimedia/GoogleEarth/GoogleEarth.SlackBuild
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
 # and to Daniel de Kok and Alan_Hicks for their comments.
 
 PRGNAM=GoogleEarth
-VERSION=${VERSION:-5.0.11733.9347}
+VERSION=${VERSION:-5.1.3533.1731}
 ARCH=${ARCH:-i486}
 BUILD=${BUILD:-1}
 TAG=${TAG:-_SBo}
@@ -139,4 +139,4 @@ rm $PKG/opt/$PRGNAM/{preuninstall,setup,postinstall}.sh
 rm -rf $PKG/opt/$PRGNAM/setup.data
 
 cd $PKG
-/sbin/makepkg -l y -c n $OUTPUT/$PRGNAM-$VERSION-$ARCH-$BUILD$TAG.tgz
+/sbin/makepkg -l y -c n $OUTPUT/$PRGNAM-$VERSION-$ARCH-$BUILD$TAG.${PKGTYPE:-tgz}
diff --git a/multimedia/GoogleEarth/GoogleEarth.info b/multimedia/GoogleEarth/GoogleEarth.info
index cab2c13169..9ff2013517 100644
--- a/multimedia/GoogleEarth/GoogleEarth.info
+++ b/multimedia/GoogleEarth/GoogleEarth.info
@@ -1,8 +1,10 @@
 PRGNAM="GoogleEarth"
-VERSION="5.0.11733.9347"
+VERSION="5.1.3533.1731"
 HOMEPAGE="http://earth.google.com"
 DOWNLOAD="http://dl.google.com/earth/client/current/GoogleEarthLinux.bin"
-MD5SUM="a6bde31a22b8cc5f0b170cd21dd404e1"
+DOWNLOAD_x86_64="UNSUPPORTED"
+MD5SUM="2d60578f4a2e56990a053faa8b30537f"
+MD5SUM_x86_64=""
 MAINTAINER="Michiel van Wessem"
 EMAIL="michiel@slackbuilds.org"
-APPROVED="dsomero"
+APPROVED="Erik Hanson"
diff --git a/multimedia/GoogleEarth/README b/multimedia/GoogleEarth/README
index d064021089..12fda82b31 100644
--- a/multimedia/GoogleEarth/README
+++ b/multimedia/GoogleEarth/README
@@ -19,7 +19,11 @@ 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
+1) GoogleEarth is a 32bit application only. You need to have the 32bit
+   compatibliy 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
    link location and they don't use version numbering in the filename 
    (the version is more an internal numbering).  
    
@@ -28,7 +32,7 @@ NOTEs:
    of GoogleEarth than what the script is designed to use. Please notify 
    the maintainer if this is the case.
 
-2) GoogleEarth now requires that you have OpenGL drivers installed on your 
+3) 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.
 
diff --git a/multimedia/GoogleEarth/slack-desc b/multimedia/GoogleEarth/slack-desc
index 911f3b178d..9367fe0b4d 100644
--- a/multimedia/GoogleEarth/slack-desc
+++ b/multimedia/GoogleEarth/slack-desc
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 # make exactly 11 lines for the formatting to be correct.  It's also
 # customary to leave one space after the ':'.
 
-      |-----handy-ruler------------------------------------------------------|
+           |-----handy-ruler------------------------------------------------------|
 GoogleEarth: GoogleEarth (Google's famous virtual globe)
 GoogleEarth:
 GoogleEarth: Google Earth is a virtual globe program. It maps a version of the