Getting Google Earth in Gentoo Linux to display Panoramio photos
March 2, 2015 1 Comment
Well, I decided to get Panoramio photos working in Google Earth installed using the hacked ebuild I posted in April 2014 (see my post Work-around if 64-bit Google Earth crashes in Gentoo Linux).
The modification devised by user amirpli (see Comment #9 in Gentoo Bugzilla Bug Report No. 490066) does not work in my case, as explained in detail in the above-mentioned April 2014 post. I believe this is because I am using the FGLRX video driver, as I have successfully applied amirpli‘s modification in an installation on a PC that has an Intel GPU.
Here is how I got Panoramio photos to display on my main laptop running the FGLRX driver, although my fix is yet another hack: I use 32-bit libraries downloaded from the Web. It works for me, though!
Background
I am running Google Earth 7.1.2.2041 installed from a local overlay (see my above-mentioned April 2014 post) in KDE 4.14.3 under Gentoo Linux ~amd64 with the 3.17.1-gentoo-r1 kernel and FGLRX driver:
# eix ati-drivers
[I] x11-drivers/ati-drivers
Available versions:
(legacy) 13.1_pre897^td
(1) 13.4^td 13.9^td 13.12^td 14.4_p1^td (~)14.6_beta2^td (~)14.9-r2^ftd (~)14.12-r2^td 14.12-r3^td
{debug disable-watermark +modules multilib pax_kernel qt4 static-libs ABI_X86="32 64" KERNEL="linux"}
Installed versions: 14.12-r3(1)^td(20:22:04 13/02/15)(modules qt4 -debug -pax_kernel -static-libs ABI_X86="32 64" KERNEL="linux")
Homepage: http://www.amd.com
Description: Ati precompiled drivers for Radeon Evergreen (HD5000 Series) and newer chipsets
Procedure
1. Download into ~/Downloads/ the following Ubuntu 32-bit packages from http://packages.ubuntu.com/utopic/i386/libs/
$ ls -la *.deb
-rw-r--r-- 1 fitzcarraldo users 24060 Mar 1 23:59 libecore-imf1_1.8.6-2ubuntu1_i386.deb
-rw-r--r-- 1 fitzcarraldo users 274206 Mar 1 22:59 libfreeimage3_3.15.4-3build1_i386.deb
-rw-r--r-- 1 fitzcarraldo users 52154 Mar 1 23:45 libilmbase6_1.0.1-6.1_i386.deb
-rw-r--r-- 1 fitzcarraldo users 135300 Mar 2 00:28 libjasper1_1.900.1-debian1-2ubuntu0.2_i386.deb
-rw-r--r-- 1 fitzcarraldo users 106868 Mar 1 23:00 libjpeg-turbo8_1.3.0-0ubuntu2_i386.deb
-rw-r--r-- 1 fitzcarraldo users 98500 Mar 1 23:39 libopenjpeg5_1.5.2-2_i386.deb
-rw-r--r-- 1 fitzcarraldo users 189420 Mar 2 00:21 libraw10_0.16.0-6_i386.deb
2. Download into ~/Downloads/ the following 32-bit packages from http://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php and http://pkgs.org/
$ ls -la *.rpm
-rw-r--r-- 1 fitzcarraldo users 57976 Mar 2 00:13 libilmbase6-1.0.2-11.1.2.i586.rpm
-rw-r--r-- 1 fitzcarraldo users 148379 Mar 2 00:03 libilmimf6-1.6.1-alt9.i586.rpm
3. Extract into ~/Downloads/ the following 32-bit libraries from the above-mentioned .deb and .rpm packages:
$ ls -la lib*.so*
-rw-r--r-- 1 fitzcarraldo users 644568 Apr 27 2014 libfreeimage-3.15.4.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 fitzcarraldo users 677340 Apr 27 2014 libfreeimageplus-3.15.4.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 fitzcarraldo users 271780 Jul 15 2012 libHalf.so.6.0.0
-rwxr-xr-x 1 fitzcarraldo users 104044 Jul 15 2012 libIex.so.6.0.0
-rw-r--r-- 1 fitzcarraldo users 671896 Dec 3 15:06 libIlmImf.so.6.0.0
-rwxr-xr-x 1 fitzcarraldo users 22260 Jul 15 2012 libIlmThread.so.6.0.0
-rw-r--r-- 1 fitzcarraldo users 342116 Jan 22 18:46 libjasper.so.1.0.0
-rw-r--r-- 1 fitzcarraldo users 300776 Dec 19 2013 libjpeg.so.8.0.2
-rw-r--r-- 1 fitzcarraldo users 142604 Apr 26 2014 libopenjpeg.so.1.5.2
-rw-r--r-- 1 fitzcarraldo users 657336 Jul 22 2014 libraw.so.10.0.0
4. Merge the 32-bit Google Earth package from a local overlay, using the ebuild listed in my above-mentioned April 2014 post:
# emerge -C googleearth
# rm -rf /opt/googleearth/
# emerge googleearth::local_overlay
5. Delete the four bundled Qt libs, compile the shim devised by user amirpli (see Comment #9 in Gentoo Bugzilla Bug Report No. 490066) but compile it for 32 bits (‘-m32‘), and edit the googleearth script to use the 32-bit libfreeimage.so.3 that you will copy into /opt/googleearth/ later:
# cd /opt/googleearth
# rm libQt*
# touch baifaao.cpp
# nano baifaao.cpp
# cat baifaao.cpp
/* amirpli 2013/11/28 */
#include <QtCore/QAtomicInt>
extern "C" {
int _Z34QBasicAtomicInt_fetchAndAddOrderedPVii(QAtomicInt* a, int b) {
return a->fetchAndAddOrdered(b);
}
}
# gcc -I/usr/include/qt4 -O3 -m32 -fPIC --shared baifaao.cpp -o baifaao.so
# nano googleearth
# tail googleearth
}
script_path=$(FindPath $0);
cd $script_path;
export LD_PRELOAD=/opt/googleearth/libfreeimage.so.3:/opt/googleearth/baifaao.so
export LC_NUMERIC=en_US.UTF-8 # Must do this if you are using non-US locale.
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=.:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH ./googleearth-bin "$@"
6. Copy into the Google Earth directory all the libraries downloaded and extracted in Steps 1 to 3 above, and create the necessary symlinks and permissions:
# cd /opt/googleearth
# cp /home/fitzcarraldo/Downloads/libfreeimage-3.15.4.so .
# cp /home/fitzcarraldo/Downloads/libfreeimageplus-3.15.4.so .
# ln -s libfreeimage-3.15.4.so libfreeimage.so.3
# ln -s libfreeimage.so.3 libfreeimage.so
# ln -s libfreeimageplus-3.15.4.so libfreeimageplus.so.3
# ln -s libfreeimageplus.so.3 libfreeimageplus.so
# chmod +x libfreeimage-3.15.4.so
# chmod +x libfreeimageplus-3.15.4.so
# cp /home/fitzcarraldo/Downloads/libjpeg.so.8.0.2 .
# ln -s libjpeg.so.8.0.2 libjpeg.so
# ln -s libjpeg.so libjpeg.so.8
# chmod +x libjpeg.so.8.0.2
# cp /home/fitzcarraldo/Downloads/libopenjpeg.so.1.5.2 .
# ln -s libopenjpeg.so.1.5.2 libopenjpeg.so
# ln -s libopenjpeg.so libopenjpeg.so.5
# chmod +x libopenjpeg.so.1.5.2
# cp /home/fitzcarraldo/Downloads/libIlmImf.so.6.0.0 .
# ln -s libIlmImf.so.6.0.0 libIlmImf.so
# ln -s libIlmImf.so libIlmImf.so.6
# chmod +x libIlmImf.so.6.0.0
# cp /home/fitzcarraldo/Downloads/libHalf.so.6.0.0 .
# ln -s libHalf.so.6.0.0 libHalf.so
# ln -s libHalf.so libHalf.so.6
# chmod +x libHalf.so.6.0.0
# cp /home/fitzcarraldo/Downloads/libIex.so.6.0.0 .
# ln -s libIex.so.6.0.0 libIex.so
# ln -s libIex.so libIex.so.6
# chmod +x libIex.so.6.0.0
# cp /home/fitzcarraldo/Downloads/libraw.so.10.0.0 .
# ln -s libraw.so.10.0.0 libraw.so
# ln -s libraw.so libraw.so.10
# chmod +x libraw.so.10.0.0
# cp /home/fitzcarraldo/Downloads/libIlmThread.so.6.0.0 .
# ln -s libIlmThread.so.6.0.0 libIlmThread.so
# ln -s libIlmThread.so libIlmThread.so.6
# chmod +x libIlmThread.so.6.0.0
# cp /home/fitzcarraldo/Downloads/libjasper.so.1.0.0 .
# ln -s libjasper.so.1.0.0 libjasper.so
# ln -s libjasper.so libjasper.so.1
# chmod +x libjasper.so.1.0.0
Finally, launch Google Earth from your user account, not the root user’s account:
$ googleearth
Clicking on any photo icon in Google Earth should now display Panoramio photos.
If you click on a photo icon and the frame that opens displays several thumbnails, clicking on a thumbnail may result in a white Panoramio frame without any photo and thumbnails displayed. According to user amirpli this problem occurs in KDE but not GNOME. If it does happen in your case, to view the other photos right-click on a thumbnail and select ‘Open in New Window’. This way you will be able to view any of the photos.
It’s nice to be able to see the Panoramio photos again in Linux with the FGLRX driver.
