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Google-earth-stable on Fedora

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Does anyone know where I can get a working google-earth-stable.i386, one that won't conflict with Fedora ?

posted Jul 8, 2013 by anonymous

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You can create your own.....

  1. rpmrebuild -ep google-earth-stable-XXX.x86_64.rpm (you may need to "yum install rpmrebuild first)
  2. Search for the line containing /usr/bin. The line is:
    %dir %attr(0755, root, root) "/usr/bin")
    Remove it.
  3. Save and exit. Answer y. It will then tell you the location of the fixed rpm.
  4. yum install PATH_TO_FIXED_RPM
answer Jul 8, 2013 by anonymous
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