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google-earth (Google's famous virtual globe)
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Google Earth is a virtual globe program. It maps a version of the
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Earth by the superimposition of images obtained from satellite
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imagery, aerial photography and GIS over a 3D globe. You point
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and zoom to any place on the planet that you want to explore.
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Satellite images and local facts zoom into view. Tap into Google
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search to show local points of interest and facts. Zoom to a
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specific address to check out an apartment or hotel. View driving
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directions and even fly along your route.
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The degree of resolution available is based somewhat on the points
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of interest, but most land (except for some islands) is covered in at
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least 15 meters of resolution.
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When running GoogleEarth for the first time, you will see an error
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message stating that it is unable to find the Bitstream Vera fonts.
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This should be safe to ignore - it will use other fonts (and the
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DejaVu fonts included with Slackware are based on the Bitstream fonts).
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NOTES:
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1) Google Earth 7 is "LSB compliant" meaning it was built on a LSB
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system. Slackware however does not have that symlink which is part
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of the LSB 3.0 specification. Before, you had to add that symlink
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manually; that is now handled in doinst.sh.
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2) Google Earth sometimes crashes when the 65-fonts-persian.conf is
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available on the system. If you experience crashes, try removing
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/etc/fonts/conf.d/65-fonts-persian.conf prior to launching this
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application. The easiest way to do this is:
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mv /etc/fonts/conf.d/65-fonts-persian.conf \
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/etc/fonts/conf.d/65-fonts-persian.conf.old
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3) GoogleEarth requires that you have OpenGL drivers installed on your
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system (and Xorg configured to use them). Not doing so will cause X
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to crash.
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4) This is the legacy version 7.3.0, which is confirmed to run on
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Slackware 14.2. The newer versions (7.3.1 and later) tend to hang
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on 14.2. On startup, a nag screen will pop up advising you that a
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new version is availble, which you can safely ignore.
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