diff --git a/network/googleearth/googleearth.conf b/network/googleearth/googleearth.conf
index 76e71260b..b178cc001 100644
--- a/network/googleearth/googleearth.conf
+++ b/network/googleearth/googleearth.conf
@@ -21,14 +21,20 @@ fi
 # comes as script with a bzip2 at the end so we need to find out
 # how many bytes the archive is and then extract it using tail
 
-install_googleearth(){
+custextract=googleearth_extract
+googleearth_extract() {
+	local filesizes=
 	# Determine the size of the archive.
-	googleebin="archdir/GoogleEarthLinux-*.bin"
-	binsize=$(strings $googleebin |grep "filesizes="|head -n 1|sed 's,[^0-9],,g')
+	eval $( strings "$1" | grep '^filesizes=' )
 
 	# Extract the archive.
+	echo "Extracting $xsrctar:$filesizes ($taropt) ... "
+
 	mkdir googleearth
-	tail --bytes $binsize $googleebin | tar -xjf - -C googleearth 
+	tail --bytes $filesizes $1 | tar -v $taropt - -C googleearth  > untar.txt
+}
+
+install_googleearth(){
 
 	# Do the actual installation.
 	mkdir -pv $root/$prefix/google-earth
@@ -44,5 +50,3 @@ install_googleearth(){
 	echo "export GOOGLEEARTH_DATA_PATH=$root/$prefix/google-earth" > \
 	$sysconfdir/profile.d/googleearth
 }
-autoextract=0
-custmain="install_googleearth"