text: Google earth -6.0 64 bit
  This is a pain. Installed it with
  rpm --> rpm2targz, blew that up in a tmpdir and made a package.
  The script is a mess (find path function doesn't find the path). I hardcoded that, and the LD_LIBRARY_PATH line also has a syntax error.
  Finally, it seems to be entirely 32 bit. Have I got the wrong download or is it a bummer?
  It's entirely 32 bit. I believe that Fedora/OpenSUSE are multilib (at least they provide both runtimes).
  09-04-2011, 04:23 PM #3
  I just unpacked the deb
  googleearth-bin: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), stripped
  09-05-2011, 03:50 AM #4
  Right. A 64-bit rpm that's entirely 32-bit. I had run
  file *.so* |grep 32
  and foujnd everything. Then
  file *.so* |grep 64
  found my symlink to libGL.so in /usr/lib64. I'm on an advanced mesa on that box, and have llvm set up because the vertex shader is crap on the video card. There is a vague memory of a --with-llvm option in there somewhere, which slackware doesn't use.
  I am _not_ going to recompile mesa32 bit, or even rob the (different version) mesa libs from this 32 bit box. Not even once. I am going to uninstall googleearth, which seems the obvious solution. Thank heavens I was tidy enough to put it in a package.