F18 and GoogleEarth

[Ranjan Maitra]

So, I decided to try installing GoogleEarth (GE) for the first time
ever. I found the following:

http://fedora18tutorial.blogspot.com/2012/12/how-to-install-google-earth-...

and tried it the following:

% wget -c
http://dl.google.com/dl/earth/client/current/google-earth-stable_current_...

%sudo yum localinstall google-earth-stable_current_x86_64.rpm 

But I got the following:

Transaction Check Error:
  file /usr/bin from install of google-earth-stable-7.1.1.1871-0.x86_64
conflicts with file from package filesystem-3.1-2.fc18.x86_64

Error Summary
-------------

Any way around it?

Many thanks,
Ranjan

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[Max Pyziur]

On Sun, 30 Jun 2013, Kevin J. Cummings wrote:

>  On or about 06/30/2013 04:59 PM, Ranjan Maitra stated for us to
> ponder:
> > Using your and Kevin's suggestions I was able to set up the Google
> > repositories. However, I am unable to use yum to install for the same
> > reasons as before.
>
>  On June 6th, Max Pyziur posted:
>
> > Here's an explanation of how to fix the Google Earth problem (use rpmrebuild):
> > http://0-productforums.google.com.library.ccbcmd.edu/forum/#!topic/earth/...
> >
> >
> > fyi,
> >
> > Max Pyziur
> > pyz(a)brama.com
>
>  Does this help?  I used it on my laptop, and it worked. 
Ditto. I saw this thread late;

Here's the link to my message:
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/2013-June/436171.html


Echoing ....

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[Ed Greshko]

On 07/01/13 20:34, Max Pyziur wrote:
>  On Sun, 30 Jun 2013, Kevin J. Cummings wrote:
>
> > On or about 06/30/2013 04:59 PM, Ranjan Maitra stated for us to ponder:
> >> Using your and Kevin's suggestions I was able to set up the Google
> >> repositories. However, I am unable to use yum to install for the same
> >> reasons as before.
> >
> > On June 6th, Max Pyziur posted:
> >
> >> Here's an explanation of how to fix the Google Earth problem (use
> rpmrebuild):
> >>
> http://0-productforums.google.com.library.ccbcmd.edu/forum/#!topic/earth/...
> >>
> >>
> >> fyi,
> >>
> >> Max Pyziur
> >> pyz(a)brama.com
> >
> > Does this help?  I used it on my laptop, and it worked.
>
>  Ditto. I saw this thread late;
>
>  Here's the link to my message:
>  https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/2013-June/436171.html 
FWIW, the link in your message no longer works....  But, I think this is the post you
wanted to highlight....

http://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/earth/XNNJgyJBw3Y



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[Ed Greshko]

On 07/01/13 06:00, poma wrote:
>  On 30.06.2013 23:46, Kevin J. Cummings wrote:
>  …
> > On June 6th, Max Pyziur posted:
> >
> >> Here's an explanation of how to fix the Google Earth problem (use
> rpmrebuild):
> >>
> http://0-productforums.google.com.library.ccbcmd.edu/forum/#!topic/earth/...
>  "The connection has timed out"
>
>  "The server at 0-productforums.google.com.library.ccbcmd.edu is taking
>  too long to respond. 
A simple google search would have pointed you to....

http://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/earth/XNNJgyJBw3Y



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[poma]

On 30.06.2013 23:46, Kevin J. Cummings wrote:
…
>  On June 6th, Max Pyziur posted:
>  
> > Here's an explanation of how to fix the Google Earth problem (use rpmrebuild):
> > http://0-productforums.google.com.library.ccbcmd.edu/forum/#!topic/earth/...
"The connection has timed out"

"The server at 0-productforums.google.com.library.ccbcmd.edu is taking
too long to respond."


poma

[poma]

On 30.06.2013 22:59, Ranjan Maitra wrote:
>  On Sun, 30 Jun 2013 21:24:31 +0200 poma
> <pomidorabelisima(a)gmail.com&gt;
>  wrote:
>  
> > On 30.06.2013 20:25, Ranjan Maitra wrote:
> >> On Sun, 30 Jun 2013 20:04:11 +0200 poma <pomidorabelisima(a)gmail.com&gt;
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >>> On 30.06.2013 17:28, Ranjan Maitra wrote:
> >>>> So, I decided to try installing GoogleEarth (GE) for the first time
> >>>> ever. I found the following:
> >>>>
> >>>>
> http://fedora18tutorial.blogspot.com/2012/12/how-to-install-google-earth-...
> >>>
> >>> Note the line relating to the installation. :)
> >>>
> >>>> and tried it the following:
> >>>>
> >>>> % wget -c
> >>>>
> http://dl.google.com/dl/earth/client/current/google-earth-stable_current_...
> >>>>
> >>>> %sudo yum localinstall google-earth-stable_current_x86_64.rpm 
> >>>
> >>> yum install ./foobar.rpm
> >>>
> >>> man 8 yum - localinstall
> >>> …  This command is maintained for legacy reasons only.
> >>
> >> Thanks, I was not aware of this. Never really read yum's manpages much.
> >>
> >>>> But I got the following:
> >>>>
> >>>> Transaction Check Error:
> >>>>   file /usr/bin from install of google-earth-stable-7.1.1.1871-0.x86_64
> >>>> conflicts with file from package filesystem-3.1-2.fc18.x86_64
> >>>
> >>> rpm -ivh --noscripts --excludepath /usr/bin
> >>> google-earth-stable_current_x86_64.rpm
> >>> xdg-desktop-menu install /opt/google/earth/free/google-earth.desktop
> >>>
> >>> man 8 rpm
> >>> man 1 xdg-desktop-menu
> >>
> >> I guess that this can not be done using yum then? 
> >
> > rpm -qi yum-plugin-tsflags
> > cat /usr/lib/yum-plugins/tsflags.py
> > man 5 yum.conf - tsflags
> > "excludepath"?
> >
> > If you haven't found that it works that way, it's for your own good.
> > yum love us all. :)
> >
> >> Btw, does GoogleEarth have a repo, or is there a third-party repo
> >> somewhere?
> >
> > rpm -qp --scripts google-earth-stable_current_x86_64.rpm | grep yum.repos
> > But the question is, does it work at all. ;)
> > Note the dates:
> > https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/google-linux-repositories-help-ba...
> >
> >
>  
>  Using your and Kevin's suggestions I was able to set up the Google
>  repositories. However, I am unable to use yum to install for the same
>  reasons as before. 
If you omit "--noscripts" from:
'rpm -ivh --noscripts --excludepath /usr/bin
google-earth-stable_current_x86_64.rpm'
you'll get your repo file, but as I said before, google-earth.repo per
se doesn't guarantee that the whole thing work.
You can ask Google directly whether the repo is actually set, at all.
Advertised != Provided ;)

>  I did try out:
>  
>  after installing yum-plugin-tsflags
>  
>  man 5 yum.conf -tsflags "excludepath"
>  
>  but nothing useful came of that (from what I can tell, this is just the
>  manpage of yum.conf?). 
man 5 yum.conf - tsflags
"excludepath"?

OK, it means: read the yum.conf manual, and under the OPTIONS search for
the "tsflags" and find whether there is a flag "excludepath"
advertised.

rpm -qi yum-plugin-tsflags
cat /usr/lib/yum-plugins/tsflags.py

It means: what the 'yum-plugin-tsflags' provides you is translation from
the yum.conf style to the yum command line style, therefore read
'/usr/lib/yum-plugins/tsflags.py' for an example to do so.
"parser.add_option" ;)


poma

[Kevin Cummings]

On or about 06/30/2013 04:59 PM, Ranjan Maitra stated for us to ponder:
>  Using your and Kevin's suggestions I was able to set up the
> Google
>  repositories. However, I am unable to use yum to install for the same
>  reasons as before. 
On June 6th, Max Pyziur posted:

>  Here's an explanation of how to fix the Google Earth problem (use
> rpmrebuild):
>  http://0-productforums.google.com.library.ccbcmd.edu/forum/#!topic/earth/...
>  
>  
>  fyi,
>  
>  Max Pyziur
>  pyz(a)brama.com 
Does this help?  I used it on my laptop, and it worked.

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[Ranjan Maitra]

On Sun, 30 Jun 2013 21:24:31 +0200 poma <pomidorabelisima(a)gmail.com&gt;
wrote:

>  On 30.06.2013 20:25, Ranjan Maitra wrote:
>  > On Sun, 30 Jun 2013 20:04:11 +0200 poma <pomidorabelisima(a)gmail.com&gt;
>  > wrote:
>  > 
>  >> On 30.06.2013 17:28, Ranjan Maitra wrote:
>  >>> So, I decided to try installing GoogleEarth (GE) for the first time
>  >>> ever. I found the following:
>  >>>
>  >>>
> http://fedora18tutorial.blogspot.com/2012/12/how-to-install-google-earth-...
>  >>
>  >> Note the line relating to the installation. :)
>  >>
>  >>> and tried it the following:
>  >>>
>  >>> % wget -c
>  >>>
> http://dl.google.com/dl/earth/client/current/google-earth-stable_current_...
>  >>>
>  >>> %sudo yum localinstall google-earth-stable_current_x86_64.rpm 
>  >>
>  >> yum install ./foobar.rpm
>  >>
>  >> man 8 yum - localinstall
>  >> …  This command is maintained for legacy reasons only.
>  > 
>  > Thanks, I was not aware of this. Never really read yum's manpages much.
>  > 
>  >>> But I got the following:
>  >>>
>  >>> Transaction Check Error:
>  >>>   file /usr/bin from install of google-earth-stable-7.1.1.1871-0.x86_64
>  >>> conflicts with file from package filesystem-3.1-2.fc18.x86_64
>  >>
>  >> rpm -ivh --noscripts --excludepath /usr/bin
>  >> google-earth-stable_current_x86_64.rpm
>  >> xdg-desktop-menu install /opt/google/earth/free/google-earth.desktop
>  >>
>  >> man 8 rpm
>  >> man 1 xdg-desktop-menu
>  > 
>  > I guess that this can not be done using yum then? 
>  
>  rpm -qi yum-plugin-tsflags
>  cat /usr/lib/yum-plugins/tsflags.py
>  man 5 yum.conf - tsflags
>  "excludepath"?
>  
>  If you haven't found that it works that way, it's for your own good.
>  yum love us all. :)
>  
>  > Btw, does GoogleEarth have a repo, or is there a third-party repo
>  > somewhere?
>  
>  rpm -qp --scripts google-earth-stable_current_x86_64.rpm | grep yum.repos
>  But the question is, does it work at all. ;)
>  Note the dates:
>  https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/google-linux-repositories-help-ba...
>  
>   
Using your and Kevin's suggestions I was able to set up the Google
repositories. However, I am unable to use yum to install for the same
reasons as before.

I did try out:

after installing yum-plugin-tsflags

man 5 yum.conf -tsflags "excludepath"

but nothing useful came of that (from what I can tell, this is just the
manpage of yum.conf?).

Thanks,
Ranjan

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[Kevin Cummings]

On or about 06/30/2013 02:25 PM, Ranjan Maitra stated for us to ponder:

> > On 30.06.2013 17:28, Ranjan Maitra wrote:
> >> But I got the following:
> >>
> >> Transaction Check Error:
> >>   file /usr/bin from install of google-earth-stable-7.1.1.1871-0.x86_64
> >> conflicts with file from package filesystem-3.1-2.fc18.x86_64 
Someone else recently posted a trick using rpmrebuild to fix the
google-earth-stable RPM.  You might want to search the archives over the
last month or so.  The latest was google-earth-stable-6.0.3-2197-0 when
I last installed it.  Perhaps Google's yum repo is behind there direct
download?

> > rpm -ivh --noscripts --excludepath /usr/bin
> > google-earth-stable_current_x86_64.rpm
> > xdg-desktop-menu install /opt/google/earth/free/google-earth.desktop
> >
> > man 8 rpm
> > man 1 xdg-desktop-menu
>  
>  I guess that this can not be done using yum then?  
>  Btw, does GoogleEarth have a repo, or is there a third-party repo
>  somewhere? 
[google-earth]
name=google-earth
baseurl=http://dl.google.com/linux/earth/rpm/stable/i386
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1

>  Thanks again!
>  Ranjan
>  
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[poma]

On 30.06.2013 20:25, Ranjan Maitra wrote:
>  On Sun, 30 Jun 2013 20:04:11 +0200 poma
> <pomidorabelisima(a)gmail.com&gt;
>  wrote:
>  
> > On 30.06.2013 17:28, Ranjan Maitra wrote:
> >> So, I decided to try installing GoogleEarth (GE) for the first time
> >> ever. I found the following:
> >>
> >>
> http://fedora18tutorial.blogspot.com/2012/12/how-to-install-google-earth-...
> >
> > Note the line relating to the installation. :)
> >
> >> and tried it the following:
> >>
> >> % wget -c
> >>
> http://dl.google.com/dl/earth/client/current/google-earth-stable_current_...
> >>
> >> %sudo yum localinstall google-earth-stable_current_x86_64.rpm 
> >
> > yum install ./foobar.rpm
> >
> > man 8 yum - localinstall
> > …  This command is maintained for legacy reasons only.
>  
>  Thanks, I was not aware of this. Never really read yum's manpages much.
>  
> >> But I got the following:
> >>
> >> Transaction Check Error:
> >>   file /usr/bin from install of google-earth-stable-7.1.1.1871-0.x86_64
> >> conflicts with file from package filesystem-3.1-2.fc18.x86_64
> >
> > rpm -ivh --noscripts --excludepath /usr/bin
> > google-earth-stable_current_x86_64.rpm
> > xdg-desktop-menu install /opt/google/earth/free/google-earth.desktop
> >
> > man 8 rpm
> > man 1 xdg-desktop-menu
>  
>  I guess that this can not be done using yum then?  
rpm -qi yum-plugin-tsflags
cat /usr/lib/yum-plugins/tsflags.py
man 5 yum.conf - tsflags
"excludepath"?

If you haven't found that it works that way, it's for your own good.
yum love us all. :)

>  Btw, does GoogleEarth have a repo, or is there a third-party repo
>  somewhere? 
rpm -qp --scripts google-earth-stable_current_x86_64.rpm | grep yum.repos
But the question is, does it work at all. ;)
Note the dates:
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/google-linux-repositories-help-ba...


poma

[Ranjan Maitra]

On Sun, 30 Jun 2013 20:04:11 +0200 poma <pomidorabelisima(a)gmail.com&gt;
wrote:

>  On 30.06.2013 17:28, Ranjan Maitra wrote:
>  > So, I decided to try installing GoogleEarth (GE) for the first time
>  > ever. I found the following:
>  > 
>  >
> http://fedora18tutorial.blogspot.com/2012/12/how-to-install-google-earth-...
>  
>  Note the line relating to the installation. :)
>  
>  > and tried it the following:
>  > 
>  > % wget -c
>  > http://dl.google.com/dl/earth/client/current/google-earth-stable_current_...
>  > 
>  > %sudo yum localinstall google-earth-stable_current_x86_64.rpm 
>  
>  yum install ./foobar.rpm
>  
>  man 8 yum - localinstall
>  …  This command is maintained for legacy reasons only. 
Thanks, I was not aware of this. Never really read yum's manpages much.

>  > But I got the following:
>  > 
>  > Transaction Check Error:
>  >   file /usr/bin from install of google-earth-stable-7.1.1.1871-0.x86_64
>  > conflicts with file from package filesystem-3.1-2.fc18.x86_64
>  
>  rpm -ivh --noscripts --excludepath /usr/bin
>  google-earth-stable_current_x86_64.rpm
>  xdg-desktop-menu install /opt/google/earth/free/google-earth.desktop
>  
>  man 8 rpm
>  man 1 xdg-desktop-menu 
I guess that this can not be done using yum then? 

Btw, does GoogleEarth have a repo, or is there a third-party repo
somewhere?

Thanks again!
Ranjan

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[poma]

On 30.06.2013 17:28, Ranjan Maitra wrote:
>  So, I decided to try installing GoogleEarth (GE) for the first time
>  ever. I found the following:
>  
>
> http://fedora18tutorial.blogspot.com/2012/12/how-to-install-google-earth-...
Note the line relating to the installation. :)

>  and tried it the following:
>  
>  % wget -c
>  http://dl.google.com/dl/earth/client/current/google-earth-stable_current_...
>  
>  %sudo yum localinstall google-earth-stable_current_x86_64.rpm  
yum install ./foobar.rpm

man 8 yum - localinstall
…  This command is maintained for legacy reasons only.

>  But I got the following:
>  
>  Transaction Check Error:
>    file /usr/bin from install of google-earth-stable-7.1.1.1871-0.x86_64
>  conflicts with file from package filesystem-3.1-2.fc18.x86_64 
rpm -ivh --noscripts --excludepath /usr/bin
google-earth-stable_current_x86_64.rpm
xdg-desktop-menu install /opt/google/earth/free/google-earth.desktop

man 8 rpm
man 1 xdg-desktop-menu


poma