On Jul 20, 2009, at 11:52 , Jaroslaw Polok wrote:

>> $ sh GoogleEarthLinux.bin
>> Verifying archive integrity...Error in MD5 checksums:
>> 09923ec56a4b8ccbbe77f4fc280e3490 is different from  
>> 7e2ee64995f3a4b65373ce81d235cd00
>> has anyone successfully installed any version of google earth?
>
> Yes, just the current one (5... something) - be aware
> that it will not work with selinux enabled (unless
> somebody has a selinux policy written for it ?)

Just "chcon -t textrel_shlib_t" the shared objects and it will work  
fine.

Cheers,
	Stephan

> 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
>
> (coming from bash and coreutils packages)
>
> Verify that your installation of the above is not
> corrupted:
>
> # rpm -V coreutils bash
>
> (there should be no output)
>
> and verify that /usr/bin/ and /bin/ where above utils can
> be found are on your PATH
>
> # echo $PATH
>
> 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
>
> and check if you have an utility called 'md5'
> (google installer will try to use that one if found)
>
> If above still does not help try running
> GoogleEarthLinux.bin installer using 'sh -x' ... this should show
> you the exact commands executed ..
>
> Cheers
>
> Jarek
>
>
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