OK reading http://people.debian.org.tw/~chihchun/2010/09/12/google-earth-for-linux/ $ LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libfreeimage.so.3 googleearth Google Earth has caught signal 11.
Major Version 5 Minor Version 2 Build Number 0001 Build Date Sep 1 2010 Build Time 11:25:42 OS Type 3 OS Major Version 2 OS Minor Version 6 OS Build Version 32 OS Patch Version 0 Crash Signal 11 Crash Time 1289959857 Up Time 3.27545
Stacktrace from glibc: /usr/lib/googleearth/libgoogleearth_free.so(+0xd090b)[0xb773a90b] [0xb7875400] /usr/lib/libQtGui.so.4(_ZN14QWidgetPrivate11show_helperEv+0x61)[0xb6990841] /usr/lib/libQtGui.so.4(_ZN7QWidget10setVisibleEb+0x1eb)[0xb6992deb] /usr/lib/libQtGui.so.4(_ZN14QWidgetPrivate12showChildrenEb+0x170)[0xb6990d10] /usr/lib/libQtGui.so.4(_ZN14QWidgetPrivate11show_helperEv+0x61)[0xb6990841] /usr/lib/libQtGui.so.4(_ZN7QWidget10setVisibleEb+0x1eb)[0xb6992deb] /usr/lib/libQtGui.so.4(_ZN7QWidget10showNormalEv+0x72)[0xb69803e2] /usr/lib/googleearth/libgoogleearth_free.so(_ZN10MainWindow18readScreensizeInfoEv+0xc35)[0xb7705b15] /usr/lib/googleearth/libgoogleearth_free.so(_ZN5earth6client11Application12SetupMainWinENS0_3Kvw7ProductEb+0x29e)[0xb773ec1e] /usr/lib/googleearth/libgoogleearth_free.so(_ZN5earth6client11Application3runEv+0x42f)[0xb7745a7f] /usr/lib/googleearth/libgoogleearth_free.so(earthmain+0x27d)[0xb7739d3d] /usr/lib/googleearth/googleearth-bin(_init+0x12e)[0x80486d2] /lib/i686/cmov/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xe6)[0xb5316c76] /usr/lib/googleearth/googleearth-bin(_init+0x9d)[0x8048641]