Googleearth 5 crashes on Ubuntu 8.10

[Henrik S.]

Binary package hint: googleearth-package

Description: Crash on trying to start application googleearth.
Package: GoogleEarth 5 installed from package "googleearth_5.0.11337.1968+0.5.4-1_i386.deb" created by the make-googleearth-package package.
Distro: Intrepid 8.10 + updates.
Reproducible: Always (on my configuration).

-=[ Crash report ]=-

$ googleearth
Warning: Unable to create prefs directory '/home/henrik/.googleearth'. File exists.
/usr/lib/googleearth/googleearth-bin: relocation error: /usr/lib/i686/cmov/libssl.so.0.9.8: symbol BIO_test_flags, version OPENSSL_0.9.8 not defined in file libcrypto.so.0.9.8 with link time reference

-=[ Additional ]=-

Graphics drivers: Binary NVidia drivers (nvidia-glx-177 177.82-0ubuntu0.1)
Graphics drivers: VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation C51G [GeForce 6100] (rev a2)
openssl version installed: 0.9.8g-10.1ubuntu2.1

Suggestion: You should allow this package to download an (at any time) earlier version of googleearth.

[Silvano (silvavlis)]

There is an easy workaround that might help to better identify the origin of the problem.

If you enter the directory where GoogleEarth got installed and simply eliminate/rename the file libcrypto.so.0.9.8, then it'll work.

I hope it helps. At least until the bug gets resolved :-)

[Simon Gerhards (simger-deactivatedaccount)]

make-googleearth-package currently doesn't support Googleearth 5.
There is a bug filed In Debian BTS with an attached patch to googleearth-package:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=514052

This works for me.

[Karsten W. Rohrbach (byteborg)]

Reproducible Bug, as documented in Debian bugrtacker

[Fabien Tassin (fta)]

As no one took it before, I fixed that yesterday before the Jaunty feature freeze.
I was not aware of this bug.

googleearth-package (0.5.4.1~0ubuntu1) jaunty; urgency=low

  * Support Google Earth 5.0
  * Drop the libcrypto provided by the package to use our own in order to
    avoid symbol clashes
  * Remove obsolete code about mailto-scripts
  * Add lib32nss-mdns to Depends for amd64/ia64
  * Bump Standard Version to 3.8.0

 -- Fabien Tassin <email address hidden> Tue, 17 Feb 2009 15:50:20 +0100