[ydl-gen] Google Earth on YDL 5.0

[Derick Centeno]

Hi Julian!

If you look carefully here on this page:

http://earth.google.com/download-earth.html

You'll see that the Linux which will run Google Earth is restricted to 
Linux which runs on Intel and compatible systems.

The Cell and PowerPC systems are not part of that CPU family architecture.

It sadly makes perfect sense that the Cell would outdo anything Intel 
and compatibles can do, but Google Earth was designed before the Cell 
existed in the market place.
One could ask Google Earth to also support the PowerPC and the Cell or 
perhaps just the Cell.  But Google Earth does not appear to be open 
source as Linux, Mozilla and many other projects are. 

In other words, I'm saying that there is not a great chance that Google 
will begin working to support the Cell or the PowerPC -- even if it made 
sense to do so -- anytime soon.  You may just have to accept that Google 
Earth is not available for the Cell and PowerPC architecture.

Good Luck  ... Derick
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Julian Meneses Gartner wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've been trying to install Google Earth for Linux on my PS3 (YDL 5.0) but 
> even though I follow all the steps listed on Google's website the 
> installation gets to a point were it wont continue and will quit.
>
> Does anybody know how to install it properly?
>
> Thanks so much.
>
> Julian
>
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