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Hi, I`am new in Salix (and Slackware based distros), btw after 5 hours of using I think it`s great. Could you please tell me the way to install Googleearth 6 to Salix(32 bit)? I find how-to about installing it on Slackware, but there are not *.bin files on Google`s page anymore, only .deb and .rpm Thanks.

Hello,
A small utiliy called rpm2tgz may help to you to install to convert rpm package into an installable package for Salix/Slackware.
rpm2tgz is available via Gslapt; install it and then download the rpm (generally on /home/Downloads.
When it's completed open a Terminal and navigate to the folder where the download is located; become root then type
rpm2tgz yourpackagename

That should run ok. Your tgz package should be ready to be installed with the usual installpkg command

Hope this helps,

It's also available through slapt-src.

Thanks, I`ve installed it finally

1. Get binary dl.google.com/earth/client/current/GoogleEarthLinux.bin
2. chmod +x GoogleEarthLinux.bin
3. ./GoogleEarthLinux.bin
4. # ln -sf /lib/ld-linux.so.2 /lib/ld-lsb.so.3