F18 and GoogleEarth

[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-on-fedora-17.html

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_x86_64.rpm
> 
> %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