F18 and GoogleEarth

[poma]

On 30.06.2013 20:25, Ranjan Maitra wrote:
> 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? 

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-basics


poma