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Sunday, 08 January 2006 |
Google Earth was created to put satellite imagery and other geographic information right on the (Windows) desktop. Unfortunately no Linux version is available jet. In the meantime the Linux Community was trying to get Google Earth running on a Linux Desktop using Wine. This Tutorial will explain how to install and run it. To be honest, it is very easy to install and to run it, but you have to live with some deficiencies:
You have to disable menus (using Ctrl+1 and Ctrl+2). It is possible to use the menus on the top, if you know where they are. The fonts are crazy. It seems that they are too far apart for the status bar and map labels. So I recommend disabling the status bar as well.
Nevertheless, if you have no Windows machine around you and would like to display and view satellite imagery but also to handle and process it in other Linux application, this is the way how to do it.
Step 1: Getting the software
To get the whole thing running we need the following software:
Download the above mentioned software and store it in the user’s home
directory. In this workshop I stored everything in /home/frank.
Step 2: Suse 10.0
Installation
I don’t want to explain how to install Suse. It is very easy theses days.
If you need help, please use the following link:
http://www.linux.org/dist/reviews/suse10.html
It is now time
to specify which programs you wish to install on your system. There are thousands
of packages available for SUSE Linux,
and to make it simpler to manage the packages have been placed into groups of
similar applications. We just need a basis system. Save time and hard disk
space and just install the necessary files. Please make sure to install
Microsoft True Type Fonts.
Remark: You will later
have the possibility to add and remove software packages using YAST.
Step 3: Installing Wine
According to
WineHQ Webpage: “Wine is a translation layer (a program loader) capable of
running Windows applications on Linux and other POSIX compatible operating
systems. Windows programs running in Wine act as native programs would, running
without the performance or memory usage penalties of an emulator, with a
similar look and feel to other applications on your desktop”. You downloaded already the latest
version (wine-0.9.5) in Step 1. It is now time to install it with root
permissions like this:
su
rpm –i
wine-0.9.5-SuSELinux100.i586.rpm
Next we have to configure Wine to simulate a Windows 98 system. To do so, please go back to a normal user (in
our case frank) and run winecfg from the user’s home directory. Wine will
create all necessary subdirectories for you.
cd /home/frank
winecfg
Again, do not forget to set the Windows Version to Windows 98 like this:
Step 4: Install all necessary
dll and exe files
Just unzip the fille psapi.zip you downloaded in step 1 and copy the dll to the windows system32 directory like this:
cd /home/frank
unzip psapi.zip
cp psapi.dll /home/frank/.wine/drive_c/windows/system32
Next we have to install dcom98.exe like this:
cd /home/frank
WINEDLLOVERRIDES=”ole32,oleaut32,rpcrt4=n”
wine dcom98.exe
Wine will ask you to install DCOM98 for Windows 98. Answer with yes like shown below:
Finally
it is necessary to run winecfg again to prepare the GoggleEarth installation
and to set the Windows Version to Windows
XP.
cd /home/frank
winecfg
Step 5: Installing and run
GoogleEarth
This
will be already the last step in our workshop. Just run the following commands
from the console similar to what we did in step 4.
WINEDLLOVERRIDES="ole32,oleaut32,rpcrt4=n"
wine GoogleEarth.exe
Please
watch the installation process. The
setup will create GoogleEarth in the following directory:
/home/frank/.wine/drive_c/Programme/Google/Google\
Earth
or
/home/frank/.wine/drive_c/Program\
Files/Google/Google\ Earth
Finally you can run GoogleEarth.exe with the following command:
WINEDLLOVERRIDES="ole32,usp10,msvcrt=n"
wine /home/frank/.wine/drive_c/Programme/Google/Google\ Earth/GoogleEarth.exe
If you
have any problems with the installation, you’ll find all related posts here:
http://appdb.winehq.org/appview.php?versionId=3254
Please download the pdf version of the article here.
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