F18 and GoogleEarth

[Ranjan Maitra]

On Sun, 30 Jun 2013 20:04:11 +0200 poma <pomidorabelisima at gmail.com>
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-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.

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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