I got NORAD TRACKS SANTA 2008 [via Google Blog] and wanted to see how we can track. :) So I installed Google Earth. The installation still isn’t smooth.

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Download Google Earth, and grant the execution permission, then run it! I got the error because of my x86_64:

./googleearth-bin: error while loading shared libraries: libGL.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

You need to install the right libGL library, in my case, for radeon open source driver:

yum install mesa-libGL.i386

Then I got another error:

./googleearth-bin: error while loading shared libraries: ./libminizip.so: cannot restore segment prot after reloc: Permission denied

By advise from setroubleshoot:

chcon -t textrel_shlib_t ~/google-earth/libminizip.so

But you better to do with:

chcon -t textrel_shlib_t ~/google-earth/*.so

Note

if you see the main window and tip dialog after launching Google Earth, but screen freezes and mouse cursor still moves. You probably turn off KMS, which you have nomodeset in your kernel booting parameter. Remove that, Google Earth will run.

REMEMBER: Check that website on Christmas Eve!