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   andrew.williams@t-online.de to bad sector   
   Re: To run Googleearth-5.2 binary on Lea   
   10 Nov 17 11:16:42   
   
   On Friday, November 10, 2017 at 3:48:24 PM UTC+1, bad sector wrote:   
   > I'm posting this in case someone should search for it   
   >   
   > On an Amd64 machine with a Suse-Leap-4.23 or a   
   > Tumbleweed freshie aboard, installing any package   
   > of invoking a migrated binary of Ge-5.2 does NOT   
   > work. However on complaints under Leap I installed,   
   > in addition to the stock default package list,   
   > anything with:   
   >   
   > libX11   
   > libXrender   
   > libGL   
   >   
   > in it.   
   >   
   > I don't remember if the binary is a 32 bit or a 64.   
   > This does NOT work on Suse-Tumbleweed however. There   
   > I can neither install a package nor launch a transplanted   
   > binary. On Leap the instaled directory was imported   
   > as-is from oss-13.2 to   
   >   
   > /usr/local/google-earth   
   >   
   > in there lies the launch script which starts the binary   
   >   
   > the command, as user:   
   >   
   > /usr/local/google-earth/googleearth   
   >   
   > This should extend the life of Ge-5.2 at least until   
   > it stops working on Leap-4.23   
      
      
   My copy installed to /opt/google/earth/free and is the 64-Bit version.   
   Leap 42.3.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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