Greg2 Posted September 6, 2007 Report Share Posted September 6, 2007 I've found this blog entry today: google-earth-flight-simulator It tells of an Easter Egg in the new beta 4.2 of Google Earth... a flight simulator! I've installed this on Mandriva 2007, and I've been flying around all morning! :D You should remove any existing Google Earth installation first, including the ~/.googleearth directory. Then install the new beta version, and open it up to complete the install, then close it. Then in a terminal do echo 1 > .googleearth/Registry/google/googleearthplus/User/flightsim/isenabled Now open Google Earth, and switch between the Earth view and the new Sky view. Then go to Tools > Enter Flight Simulator, and away you go. You will only find this 'Enter Flight Simulator' option in either Earth or Sky view, my installation shows it in Earth. You can also open it with Ctrl+Alt+A, some people have reported that Ctrl+A works on their installation. Enjoy! :) [moved from Software by spinynorman] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neddie Posted September 12, 2007 Report Share Posted September 12, 2007 Tried to get this working on Spring, and just get MD5 checksum errors when I try to run the install script. Cleared my browser cache and downloaded again, with exactly the same result. Found another group of people with the same problem here: http://groups.google.de/group/earth-linux/...msgs.xml?num=50 Did you do anything special to get 4.2 working, or have they updated it since then with a broken file? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg2 Posted September 12, 2007 Author Report Share Posted September 12, 2007 Did you do anything special to get 4.2 working, or have they updated it since then with a broken file? I've done nothing that isn't in my post. I just checked and my version is 4.2.0180.1134 (beta). In the thread you've linked to, the version is 4.2.196.2018? So they may have updated it? Maybe they didn't want you to have the flight sim? Did you try this download:earth.google.com/download-earth Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted September 13, 2007 Report Share Posted September 13, 2007 I also have 4.2.0180.1134 and the tip is working... thank you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neddie Posted September 13, 2007 Report Share Posted September 13, 2007 Yeah, I went for earth.google.com and then downloads, clicked agree and it downloaded GoogleEarthLinux.bin without offering me a choice of version number. If I less the file, it says within it "Google Earth for GNU/Linux 4.2.196.2018", so I guess it's a later (and apparently broken) version than the one you downloaded. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neddie Posted September 13, 2007 Report Share Posted September 13, 2007 OK, I take it back :) I downloaded again (exactly the same as before, from earth.google.com, and this time it says "4.2.180.1134" as yours did. And it installs and runs! :) I didn't do the echoing to the file though, just did Ctrl-A to enter the flight sim (Ctrl-Shift-A didn't work, Ctrl-Alt-A didn't work, but Ctrl-A does for me). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg2 Posted September 13, 2007 Author Report Share Posted September 13, 2007 I'm glad you guys are flying now! If you need info on the controls hit Ctrl + H... before you take off. :D I'm using an old Logitech joystick, and it works great. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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