Solved - Google Earth won't start

[JohanPO]

Somehow during the course of Mepis 7, google earth broke. I had it up and running. Now it crashes and creates a crashlog.

I downloaded and installed the latest version from Google, and the problem remains.

I tried the make-googleearth-package and get the following message (and no .deb)


dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: format of `NEEDED ./libIGCore.so' not recognized
dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: format of `NEEDED ./libIGGfx.so' not recognized
dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: format of `NEEDED ./libIGUtils.so' not recognized
dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: format of `NEEDED ./libIGMath.so' not recognized
dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: format of `NEEDED ./libIGCore.so' not recognized
Package: googleearth
Version: -1
Section: non-free/science
Priority: optional
Maintainer: <>
Architecture: i386
Depends: ttf-dejavu | ttf-bitstream-vera, libc6 (>= 2.3.6-6), libfontconfig1 (>= 2.4.0), libfreetype6 (>= 2.2), libgl1-mesa-glx | libgl1, libice6 (>= 1:1.0.0), libsm6, libx11-6, libxcursor1 (>> 1.1.2), libxext6, libxft2 (>> 2.1.1), libxrender1
Description: Google Earth, a 3D map/planet viewer
Package built with googleearth-package.
dpkg-deb: parse error, in file `/home/johan/Desktop/googleearth-deb/DEBIAN/control' near line 10 package `googleearth':
empty value for version
Success!


I somehow suspect the latest ATI driver 8.43.2. Anyone have similar problems?

Update:
I confirmed that it is an ATI driver issue. I went back to vesa, and google earth works. The I reinstalled the 8.43.2 and I get the same issue again.

by cp /usr/lib/libGL.so.1 /home/johan/google-earth/ the problem is solved. I guess ln -s would also have done the job