Jaroslaw Polok wrote:

> Yes, just the current one (5... something)

5 is what i am trying to load.

> be aware that it will not work with selinux enabled (unless somebody has a
> selinux policy written for it ?)

what if set 'permissive?

> It seems to me that the problem may be with your system setup: the installer
> script for calculating md5 sums needs following utilities:
> 
> sh, head, wc, tr, md5sum, echo and cut

i have them all from installation.

> # rpm -V coreutils bash
> 
> (there should be no output)

only output is for '/usr/share/locale/*/*' that i removed because i do not
need all those languages.

> and verify that /usr/bin/ and /bin/ where above utils can be found are on
> your PATH

they are there from day 1.

> You may also want to verify if your md5sum utility is the system one (and not
> some wrapper script for example):
> 
> # which md5sum /usr/bin/md5sum

/usr/bin/md5sum

> and check if you have an utility called 'md5' (google installer will try to
> use that one if found)

none.

> If above still does not help try running GoogleEarthLinux.bin installer using
> 'sh -x' ... this should show you the exact commands executed ..

[root@argosyiayia googleearth]# sh -x GoogleEarthLinux.bin
+ CRCsum=768989834
+ MD5=7e2ee64995f3a4b65373ce81d235cd00
+ TMPROOT=/tmp
+ label='Google Earth for GNU/Linux 5.0.11733.9347'
+ script=./setup.sh
+ scriptargs=
+ targetdir=GoogleEarthLinuxPlus-5.0.11733.9347-installer

{ no errors until }

+ test -x /usr/bin/md5sum
++ echo 7e2ee64995f3a4b65373ce81d235cd00
++ cut '-d ' -f1
+ md5=7e2ee64995f3a4b65373ce81d235cd00
+ test 7e2ee64995f3a4b65373ce81d235cd00 = 00000000000000000000000000000000
++ MS_dd GoogleEarthLinux.bin 8919 25597275
+++ expr 25597275 / 1024
++ /usr/bin/md5sum
++ cut -b-32
++ blocks=24997
+++ expr 25597275 % 1024
++ bytes=347
++ dd if=GoogleEarthLinux.bin ibs=8919 skip=1 obs=1024 conv=sync
+ md5sum=09923ec56a4b8ccbbe77f4fc280e3490
+ test 09923ec56a4b8ccbbe77f4fc280e3490 '!=' 7e2ee64995f3a4b65373ce81d235cd00
+ echo 'Error in MD5 checksums: 09923ec56a4b8ccbbe77f4fc280e3490 is different
from 7e2ee64995f3a4b65373ce81d235cd00'
Error in MD5 checksums: 09923ec56a4b8ccbbe77f4fc280e3490 is different from
7e2ee64995f3a4b65373ce81d235cd00
+ exit 2
[root@argosyiayia googleearth]#


thank you for replying. please see my reply to stephan.

> Cheers

right now, only on a tv show. :(

-- 

peace out.

tc,hago.

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