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#!/bin/sh

# Always run Google Earth from this shell script and not

# Google Earth directly! This script makes sure the app looks

# in the right place for libraries that might also be installed

# elsewhere on your system.

#

# Ryan C. Gordon, Thu Jul 20 14:32:33 PDT 2006



# Function to find the real directory a program resides in.

FindPath()

{

fullpath="`echo $1 | grep /`"

if [ "$fullpath" = "" ]; then

oIFS="$IFS"

IFS=:

for path in $PATH

do if [ -x "$path/$1" ]; then

if [ "$path" = "" ]; then

path="."

fi

fullpath="$path/$1"

break

fi

done

IFS="$oIFS"

fi

if [ "$fullpath" = "" ]; then

fullpath="$1"

fi



# Is the sed/ls magic portable?

if [ -L "$fullpath" ]; then

#fullpath="`ls -l "$fullpath" | awk '{print $11}'`"

fullpath=`ls -l "$fullpath" |sed -e 's/.* -> //' |sed -e 's/*//'`

fi

dirname $fullpath

}



script_path=$(FindPath $0);



cd $script_path;



LD_LIBRARY_PATH=.:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH ./googleearth-bin "$@"