googleearth 5 does not display panoramio images

[ktulu77]

Hi,

I have installed the googleearth package from medibuntu on jaunty x64.

All the panoramio images are just blue squares, no image is shown, if I click on the blue square, the pop up opens but I have a square with a ? instead of images.

I have tried also on another computer with a fresh jaunty x64 beta install, exactly the same problem happens.

I have tried to launch googleearh in a terminal but I didn't find any error messages.

$ dpkg -l | grep googleearth
ii googleearth 5.0.11337.1968-0medibuntu7 Google Earth - binary files
ii googleearth-data 5.0.11337.1968-0medibuntu7 Google Earth - data files

Thank you

[neutronenspalter (neutronenspalter)]

Hi,

I have the same problem here with the x64 beta of Jaunty.

According to this thread:

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=67354

it is a problem with the qt-libraries no longer included in the googleearth-package. I resolved it by puting this into my /usr/share/googleearth/qt.conf:

/code
[Paths]
Documentation=/usr/share/doc
Libraries=/usr/lib32
Plugins=/usr/lib32/qt4/plugins
Translations=/usr/share/qt4/translations
/code

All the best

[Lionel Le Folgoc (mrpouit)]

Thanks. I'll try to update the package soon.

[thebestofall007 (lou1)]

i just deleted the /usr/share/googleearth/qt.conf folder and the problem cleared right up.

type: sudo rm /usr/share/googleearth/qt.conf

[Lionel Le Folgoc (mrpouit)]

Assigning to me, otherwise I'm going to forget, again...

[matbroadbent (mail-matthew-broadbent)]

The sudo command above worked great for me cheers. There's a thread running on the Jaunty forums about this problem and Google Street view not working (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1139194&highlight=google+earth+street+view).

Would the Medibuntu devs prefer a separate bug report for the Street View problem, or keep everything lumped in here? I'm a bit cautious of pointing the finger at Medibuntu the first time there's a problem with something. (After all, it's a packaging and distributing service. If the 3rd party software is buggy to start with, there's probably not a great deal you can do about it, right?)

[thebestofall007 (lou1)]

you're welcome.

[Lionel Le Folgoc (mrpouit)]

Source package uploaded (with the qt.conf file), I'll upload new binary packages soon.

matbroadbent > Yes, please file a new bug report, unless it is fixed by the removal of the qt.conf file.

[SWmail (swmail)]

Fix don't work for me. And now don't work patch the qt.conf file.

[SWmail (swmail)]

Also patched qt.conf with link it to /usr/lib32/googleearth/qt.conf works!

[matbroadbent (mail-matthew-broadbent)]

No worries I will do, once I can think of a better way to describe the Street View problem other than just "weird" :)

Btw - the latest Medibuntu GE release doesn't have broken Panoramio pictures here. Unfortunately I'd already fixed it before tonight's release, so I'm probably not best placed to comment.

[Jesper de Jong (jespdj)]

Completely removing qt.conf does not work on my 64-bit Jaunty system!
@Lionel: The update fix broke my manual patch!

I have to replace the contents of /usr/share/googleearth/qt.conf with this (as described above):

[Paths]
Documentation=/usr/share/doc
Libraries=/usr/lib32
Plugins=/usr/lib32/qt4/plugins
Translations=/usr/share/qt4/translations

And then create a symbolic link:

cd /usr/lib32/googleearth
sudo ln -s ../../share/googleearth/qt.conf qt.conf

And then it works.

[Jesper de Jong (jespdj)]

p.s. Here's another forum thread in which this is being discussed: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1141600

[hounddog (nelson-shum)]

Just installed googleearth 5 on jaunty x64. Same problem. No photos, only blank blue squares with a question mark in them. I have checked in /usr/share/googleearth/ and now the qt.conf file cannot be found. So no qt.conf file to remove or modify. I'm left scratching my head. Help would be much appreciated. Thanks.

[Jesper de Jong (jespdj)]

@hounddog: Removing qt.conf only works on 32-bit systems. For 64-bit systems you have to do what I wrote in the comment just above yours.

[Jesper de Jong (jespdj)]

Re-opening this bug because the current fix (removing qt.conf) only works for 32-bit systems. For making it work on 64-bit systems, see my comment above.

[hounddog (nelson-shum)]

Oh I see. Thanks Jesper. I applied your fix and I can see the photos now.

[Lionel Le Folgoc (mrpouit)]

Uploaded to jaunty-staging, with the correct fix this time (hopefully).

If you want to test, you can add:
deb http://packages.medibuntu.org/ jaunty-staging free non-free
to your /etc/apt/sources.list.

Thanks.

[Johan van Dijk (johanvandijk)]

Updated from jaunty-staging, but it still doesn't work. (AMD64)

[javierpedros (javierpedros)]

I have ubuntu for amd64.
I saved the file qt.conf and did the symbolic link and now works fine.
Thanks.

[MCpaul34 (mcpaul34)]

Today google earth was updated, and now panoramio didn't work with the fix.

[Jesper de Jong (jespdj)]

I noticed it too on my 64-bit system, but re-creating the link as I described in comment #11 above made it work again.

[MCpaul34 (mcpaul34)]

Ok it works again.
But i have to remove the old link in /usr/share/googleearth/ before (rm qt.conf).
Thanks.

[neutronenspalter (neutronenspalter)]

There is a typo in the /usr/lib32/googleearth/qt.conf included in the updated package:

The first line reads now:

[PATH]

but it has to be

[PATHS]

Without the plural it just don't work!

[hounddog (nelson-shum)]

I can confirm. neutronenspalter's fix works. Thanks.

[Lionel Le Folgoc (mrpouit)]

Ah, I'm stupid... Thanks for spotting this, I'll fix it asap.

[Lionel Le Folgoc (mrpouit)]

Should be fixed in googleearth 5.0.11337.1968-0medibuntu10.

[YunQiang Su (wzssyqa)]

now,2010-02-21,on lucid

it seems that i occerd this problem again.

some days before,it works well.