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What's up with Google Earth Pro in OpenSuse TW? Is this a common occurrence? (lemmy.today)

submitted 8 months ago by hansolo@lemmy.today to c/linuxquestions@lemmy.zip

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Hi all,

I'm doing my first round of distro hopping, looking for something stable and falls into the "just works" category. I'm not looking to tinker. Trying to see if something will tempt me away from Mint, and would like the added security of a rolling release.

I'm testing out OpenSuse TW in VirtualBox and the second thing I tried to install was Google Earth Pro, which I do use regularly enough that it's maybe not a dealbreaker, but it's a check point for testing out a distro.

Short version is that it's a mismatch of repos and libraries and the flatback says no-go because of a bad executable stack. I've spent days off and on trying to reinstall and fix in a way that works based on rare and meager instances years ago of people running into the same problem. Nothing works and I'm apparently not advanced enough of a Linux user to wrap my head around how to approach this other than stumbling down a few paths that don't work.

Is this something to be expected with TW? Or is this somehow unique to Google Earth Pro? Or is this a VirtualBox issue? (it shouldn't be).

Any help is appreciated.

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[–] tychosmoose@lemmy.world 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Not much info here to go on. If you searched for the specific errors you're hitting and got no recent results then it's probably not a known problem.

If you want to troubleshoot the problem, post the specific steps you're taking, and the results you get. Include error output. And relevant logging if possible.

If you only want very general comments, then I would say "rolling release" and "just works" aren't always in perfect alignment. More updates and more package versions interoperating on your machine over time will lead to (usually minor) problems. So it might be worth considering if this is a problem you want to invest time in.

I have been running Tumbleweed for a few years and haven't hit any major app install problems. Only had a handful of very minor update issues. But I've not tried to install this specific program.

[–] hansolo@lemmy.today 2 points 8 months ago

Thanks for your message. Right now I'm not really looking for troubleshooting help, I'm more so trying to figure out if this is a thing to just expect from TW and I should move on to another distro, or if this is a one-off experience with an admittedly rarely used in Linux app. I also ran into issues with Earth Pro on Mint, but it was a very simple fix from the flatpack install, so running into this wall feels . like a sign or something. The last forum post I found about this issue was from 2021 IIRC, with the same exact error on install, so it's not just me at least.

I'm fine with occasionally needing to deconflict issues, but I may also need a distro that's a better middle step between Mint and TW.