On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 11:36 PM, Alexander Hunt
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> ADDENDUM: I decided to try this to see what Google Earth is like and the
> program wouldn't start after install, so I tried starting it up from the
> command line and got this error: ./googleearth-bin: /lib/ld-lsb.so.3: bad
> ELF interpreter: No such file or directory
> After doing some research I found that 64-bit Google Earth isn't a true
> 64-bit app and needs the i686 versions (which it didn't pull in) of:
> lsb-redhat, fontconfig, libX11, libXrender, libXext, libGL (I installed
> Mesa-libGL, but I have Intel graphics, so I'm not sure if it would be the
> same with other brands of graphics adapters) and libSM, (as well as the
> other deps pulled in from each of those of course)

 As Alex said, 64-bit Google Earth requires many 32-bit packages. For
people who have nvidia graphics cards, the easiest way is to install
kmod-nvidia from ELRepo [1]. Just make sure you install the 32-bit drv
package.  So, you will need:

kmod-nvidia
nvidia-x11-drv
nvidia-x11-drv-32bit  <== this is the key

By the way, I installed libmodplug from rpmforge:

libmodplug-0.8.7-1.el6.rf.x86_64

Google Earth is working on my SL x86_64 desktop. :-)

Akemi

[1] http://elrepo.org/tiki/kmod-nvidia