When using network links that use WWW-Authenticate Basic, Google Earth prompts the user to "Remember this password in my keychain" but fails to do so. To the best of my knowledge I have duplicated my Arch install to mirror several (working) Debian based systems, but the password is never saved to the keychain. I have looked around to solve this issue for nearly a year and have never seen anyone talk about this, as I assume that it's such an obscure problem. I would be eternally grateful for any assistance!
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Package Details: google-earth-pro 7.3.6.10441-1
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| Git Clone URL: | https://aur.archlinux.org/google-earth-pro.git (read-only, click to copy) |
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| Package Base: | google-earth-pro |
| Description: | 3D interface to explore the globe, terrain, streets, buildings and other planets (Pro version) |
| Upstream URL: | https://www.google.com/earth/ |
| Licenses: | LicenseRef-Google-custom |
| Provides: | google-earth |
| Submitter: | Det |
| Maintainer: | iyanmv |
| Last Packager: | iyanmv |
| Votes: | 1087 |
| Popularity: | 2.24 |
| First Submitted: | 2017-01-23 16:08 (UTC) |
| Last Updated: | 2025-09-25 14:13 (UTC) |
Dependencies (13)
- alsa-lib
- desktop-file-utils (desktop-file-utils-gitAUR)
- fontconfig (fontconfig-gitAUR, fontconfig-ubuntuAUR)
- glu (glu-gitAUR)
- gst-plugins-base-libs (gst-plugins-base-libs-gitAUR)
- hicolor-icon-theme (hicolor-icon-theme-gitAUR)
- libcups (libcups-gitAUR, cups-gitAUR, libcups-gssapiAUR)
- libproxy (libproxy-gitAUR)
- libsm
- libxi (libxi-gitAUR)
- libxml2-legacy
- libxrender
- sqlite (sqlite-fossilAUR)
Required by (2)
Sources (5)
bmac8086 commented on 2025-10-30 13:34 (UTC)
scvg009 commented on 2025-10-05 16:02 (UTC)
Can 3D acceleration be added?
dobedobedo commented on 2025-09-30 11:41 (UTC)
The default script in /usr/bin/google-earth-pro is just a copy of /opt/google/earth/pro/google-earth-pro, which tries to open /usr/bin/googleearth-bin, which doesn't exist.
The best workaround is just to make /usr/bin/google-earth-pro a symbolic link to /opt/google/earth/pro/google-earth-pro in PKGBUILD
ln -sf ${pkgdir}/${_installdir}/google-earth-pro ${pkgdir}/usr/bin/google-earth-pro
kb8doa commented on 2025-05-12 14:44 (UTC)
If there is no fix for this, is there not a way for me to set the updater to ignore this update?
iyanmv commented on 2025-05-08 17:06 (UTC)
mreeves87: This is a temporary workaround until upstream updates their binary. Then it will be possible to replace libxml2-legacy with libxml2. For now, this is needed here, as well as in many other packages. The reason is that Arch Linux updated libxml2 to 2.14, which breaks compatibility with binaries using earlier versions. From their changelog:
Binary compatibility is restricted to versions 2.14 or newer. On ELF systems, the soname was bumped from libxml2.so.2 to libxml2.so.16.
iyanmv commented on 2025-05-08 15:54 (UTC)
mreeves87: No, it is not.
mreeves87 commented on 2025-05-08 15:18 (UTC) (edited on 2025-05-08 15:20 (UTC) by mreeves87)
libxml2-legacy conflicts with libxml2 please update the dependency to be libxml2 as this is the same version. I have no idea why there are two packages for this.
meyznu commented on 2025-05-06 19:54 (UTC)
Version 7.3.6.10201-2 doesn't install on Manjaro because libxml2-legacy hasn't made it to the stable branch yet.
Stonemincan commented on 2025-05-02 21:18 (UTC)
Trivial fix, thanks!
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stronnag commented on 2022-06-18 17:03 (UTC)
Thanks, unfortunate timing then.
For reference, with Gnome shell / wayland I need to
to avoid
Det commented on 2017-08-24 15:33 (UTC) (edited on 2017-12-05 16:17 (UTC) by Det)
✔ NOTEThe "Free" Google Earth has been dropped: https://support.google.com/earth/answer/168344?hl=enAll future updates go to Google Earth Pro (also free): https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/google-earth-pro/