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+google-earth-legacy (Google's famous virtual globe - legacy version)
+
+Google Earth is a virtual globe program. It maps a version of the
+Earth by the superimposition of images obtained from satellite 
+imagery, aerial photography and GIS over a 3D globe. You point 
+and zoom to any place on the planet that you want to explore.
+Satellite images and local facts zoom into view. Tap into Google
+search to show local points of interest and facts. Zoom to a 
+specific address to check out an apartment or hotel. View driving
+directions and even fly along your route.
+
+The degree of resolution available is based somewhat on the points 
+of interest, but most land (except for some islands) is covered in at
+least 15 meters of resolution. 
+
+When running GoogleEarth for the first time, you will see an error
+message stating that it is unable to find the Bitstream Vera fonts.
+This should be safe to ignore - it will use other fonts (and the
+DejaVu fonts included with Slackware are based on the Bitstream fonts).
+
+NOTES:
+1) Google Earth 7 (legacy) is "LSB compliant" meaning it was built on
+   an LSB system.  Slackware however does not have that symlink which
+   is part of the LSB 3.0 specification.  Before, you had to add that
+   symlink manually; that is now handled in doinst.sh.  For nostalgia
+   sake, the symlinks are:
+       in /lib: (32-bit)
+           ln -sv ld-linux.so.2 ld-lsb.so.3
+       in /lib64:
+           ln -sv ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 ld-lsb-x86-64.so.3
+
+2) Google Earth sometimes crashes when the 65-fonts-persian.conf is
+   available on the system. If you experience crashes, try removing
+   /etc/fonts/conf.d/65-fonts-persian.conf prior to launching this
+   application. The easiest way to do this is:
+
+            mv /etc/fonts/conf.d/65-fonts-persian.conf \
+               /etc/fonts/conf.d/65-fonts-persian.conf.old
+
+3) GoogleEarth requires that you have OpenGL drivers installed on your
+   system (and Xorg configured to use them). Not doing so will cause X
+   to crash.
+
+4) This is the legacy version 7.3.0, which is the last version to be
+   released for 32-bit systems.  On startup, a nag screen will pop up
+   advising you that a new version is availble, which you can safely
+   ignore.