Re: [Slackbuilds-users] GoogleEarth Won't Start

2011-06-18 Thread Robby Workman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 17 Jun 2011 00:00:33 +0200 Marco Bonetti si...@slackware.it wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/16/2011 11:36 PM, King Beowulf wrote: After all why the heck not? THOU SHALL NOT MESS WITH LD-LINUX.SO.2 !!! On

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] GoogleEarth Won't Start

2011-06-17 Thread Michiel van Wessem
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 17 Jun 2011 00:00:33 +0200 Marco Bonetti si...@slackware.it wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/16/2011 11:36 PM, King Beowulf wrote: After all why the heck not? THOU SHALL NOT MESS WITH LD-LINUX.SO.2 !!!

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] GoogleEarth Won't Start

2011-06-17 Thread Michiel van Wessem
On Thu, 16 Jun 2011 18:36:33 -0500 Patrick J. Volkerding volke...@slackware.com wrote: Is there a list of the usual silly symlinks, or is this the only one that anything is likely to use so far? As far as I am aware, this is (so far) the only application that actually has a need for the LSB

[Slackbuilds-users] GoogleEarth Won't Start

2011-06-16 Thread Rich Shepard
Using the new SlackBuild script and a fresh copy of GoogleEarth...bin for 13.37/x86_64 I'm running into a puzzling problem when trying to invoke the application. What I see on the virtual terminal is: /usr/bin/googleearth: line 18: /opt/GoogleEarth/googleearth-bin: no such file or directory

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] GoogleEarth Won't Start

2011-06-16 Thread JK Wood
On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 2:55 PM, Rich Shepard rshep...@appl-ecosys.comwrote: Using the new SlackBuild script and a fresh copy of GoogleEarth...bin for 13.37/x86_64 I'm running into a puzzling problem when trying to invoke the application. What I see on the virtual terminal is:

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] GoogleEarth Won't Start

2011-06-16 Thread Audrius Kažukauskas
On Thu, 2011-06-16 at 12:55:41 -0700, Rich Shepard wrote: Using the new SlackBuild script and a fresh copy of GoogleEarth...bin for 13.37/x86_64 I'm running into a puzzling problem when trying to invoke the application. What I see on the virtual terminal is: /usr/bin/googleearth: line

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] GoogleEarth Won't Start

2011-06-16 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 16 Jun 2011, JK Wood wrote: Is /opt/GoogleEarth/googleearth-bin executable? JK, I should have mentioned that it is, with 755 permissions. Rich ___ SlackBuilds-users mailing list SlackBuilds-users@slackbuilds.org

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] GoogleEarth Won't Start

2011-06-16 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 16 Jun 2011, Audrius Ka?ukauskas wrote: Are you trying to run it on Slackware64? From GoogleEarth SlackBuild README: 3) GoogleEarth is a 32bit application only. You need to have the 32bit compatibility packages installed to have this work on a 64bit system. Otherwise you'll just see

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] GoogleEarth Won't Start

2011-06-16 Thread David Spencer
/usr/bin/googleearth: line 18: /opt/GoogleEarth/googleearth-bin: no such file or directory /usr/bin/googleearth: line 18: /opt/GoogleEarth/googleearth-bin: success That's what happens if you haven't done what's in the SlackBuild's README, note 2: 2) Google Earth 6 is LSB compliant meaning it

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] GoogleEarth Won't Start

2011-06-16 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 16 Jun 2011, David Spencer wrote: That's what happens if you haven't done what's in the SlackBuild's README, note 2: 2) Google Earth 6 is LSB compliant meaning it was built on a LSB system. Slackware however does not have that symlink which is part of the LSB 3.0 specification.

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] GoogleEarth Won't Start

2011-06-16 Thread King Beowulf
That tidbit caught me the other day too and was especially perplexing in the Slack32 VM until I put the beer down. I think it would be a good idea to put ln -sf /lib/ld-linux.so.2 /lib/ld-lsb.so.3 into the doinst.sh with maybe a quick check to see if the 32-bit libs are installed. After all

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] GoogleEarth Won't Start

2011-06-16 Thread Marco Bonetti
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/16/2011 11:36 PM, King Beowulf wrote: After all why the heck not? THOU SHALL NOT MESS WITH LD-LINUX.SO.2 !!! On a more serious note: I agree the link is almost armless but I don't think install scripts should start messing around with other

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] GoogleEarth Won't Start

2011-06-16 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 16 Jun 2011, King Beowulf wrote: After all why the heck not? Because it would limit the opportunities for folks to make fun of me. :-) Rich ___ SlackBuilds-users mailing list SlackBuilds-users@slackbuilds.org

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] GoogleEarth Won't Start

2011-06-16 Thread Patrick J. Volkerding
On 06/16/2011 04:09 PM, David Spencer wrote: 2) Google Earth 6 is LSB compliant meaning it was built on a LSB system. Slackware however does not have that symlink which is part of the LSB 3.0 specification. You'll need to create the symlink manually after installing the package:

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] GoogleEarth Won't Start

2011-06-16 Thread King Beowulf
On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 4:36 PM, Patrick J. Volkerding volke...@slackware.com wrote: On 06/16/2011 04:09 PM, David Spencer wrote: 2) Google Earth 6 is LSB compliant meaning it was built on a LSB system. Slackware however does not have that symlink which is part of the LSB 3.0