Google Earth

[rayfos]

Hi,
I downloaded Google Earth Linux .bin and ./ worked fine except I got the error message to the effect - could not connect to 0.0 "Refused by server/ no protocol supplied."

Question:
How to get localhost to give permission on 0.0 ?
or else how to edit Google Earth.bin and what protocol is wanted?
I think that all that is needed is to add -p and supply the password. How do I do that - and where ?

Thanks for your help

[MikeTbob]

Try launching the command as user instead of root, this happens often.

[rayfos]

Thank you so much.

That worked great - just tried in user instead of su wildow and Google earth loaded and worked great.

Thank you so much. It is easy when you know how!

[darthman8]

Hi rayfos,
Can you let me know what you typed in the terminal to install google earth, i tried it the other day but would not load even though i avoided the su command.

Cheers

Ian

[rayfos]

Ian,
1. cd (is the command to change directory) to where you have the file - using the terminal. My file was in /home/rf/Desktop. So I typed "cd /home/rf/Desktop".<enter>
2. type in "sh GoogleEarthLinux.bin" or "./GoogleEarthLinux.bin" or sh or ./ whatever the filename of the program you downloaded is with a .bin ending.<enter> The name of the file I downloaded was GoogleEarthLinux.bin. It has to be entered exactly what the filename is or it will not be found!

Trust this is helpful

[MikeTbob]

Uhhh, sorry for cutting in here. You forgot something.
part 1.5)
Before you can launch the file, you must make it executable with this command.
chmod +x GoogleEarthLinux.bin
You may need to be root or use sudo for this.
Then you can do part 2.

[darthman8]

Thankyou Rayfos and Mike for some very good advice, i eventually got a message like this
The integrity was all good
Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
Xlib: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key
Do you know what this means (double dutch to me )
Note: i am using Kubuntu 7.04 and had to use root for this

ian
ps: All sorted followed top advise as user not root ,now works fine (thanks alot)

[rayfos]

Hi,

I am not well versed in Kubuntu. I would expect that if you did as Mike suggested that you may be able to run GoogleEarth as an ordinary user instead of being in root or su. If chmod +x does not work, perhaps try chmod 755 may work.
My current understanding is that what is needed is to connect to localhost which being a logged in user lets you do. At least that suggestion worked for me.

Sorry, I can't be of more help than that.

[craigevil]

Easiest way to install and run Google Earth is the googleearth-package.

Simply apt-get install googleearth-package then run as root :
/usr/bin/make-googleearth-package

create a nice shortcut to /usr/bin/googleearth on your menu. And your good to go.