Comments on How To Install Google Earth On Ubuntu 10.10

Falco,

In an attempt to make installing programs that are not in the repositories easier, I created BleedingEdge.  http://sourceforge.net/projects/bleedingedge/

The approach for installing was not mine, but works fine on both 32 and 64 bit Ubuntu.  Here is the code from the script:

wget http://dl.google.com/earth/client/current/GoogleEarthLinux.bin

sudo chmod a+x ./GoogleEarthLinux.bin

./GoogleEarthLinux.bin --target GoogleEarthFixed

mv ./GoogleEarthFixed/setup.data/bin/Linux/x86/setup.gtk ./GoogleEarthFixed/setup.data/bin/Linux/x86/setup.gtk2

sudo ./GoogleEarthFixed/setup.sh

rm ./GoogleEarthLinux.bin

rm -Rf ./GoogleEarthFixed

 Thank you for this needle-in-the-haystack solution!

 Love the google earth. Will look into the free version too. 

very good job ... :D 

 Thanks

 ricaxe

Excellent, I tried many things, none of them worked, it is this method given by you alone that finally did the job. [I installed it in Ubuntu 10.10, 32 bit]

2 issues:

1) if you have a 32 bit system the last command has to be altered to the correct version ie like ending with i386 rather than amd64

2) even so it produces the same result on my system-it appears to install and when I click on the icon the splash screen appears and immediately crashes, in other words no go. I have been trying things all week to get this installed and am totally frustrated. This is a basic functionality that needs to be doable in a Ubuntu system. I do appreciate all your work and hope this can be fixed.

Same here... 

Likewise now I'm confused on how to uninstall it

I’m using ubuntu 10.10 you must install lsb-core!!

sudo apt-get install lsb-core

go to http://www.google.com/earth/download/ge/agree.html

and download GoogleEart for your OS and install that’s all

You need to have graphics acceleration.

Install/reinstall the proprietary graphics driver for your card or for free drivers install libgl1-mesa-glx and libgl1-mesa-dri 

I wonder why we are not provided with a .deb file to install Google Earth like with Google Chrome?

Finally I got Google Earth installed on my 64 bit Maverick desktop. :)

You can find Google Earth in Ubuntu Tweak.  It's in the Applications menu and is easily installed.

Thank-you Falco, excellent guide, worked like a charm !

Craig

...as much as you can.

Consider Marble, that is Free Software, and if you find it inadequate, help improve it or give some money to developers.

Having a proprietary program in my system would make me feel very insecure and no more completely Free.

Hope people start value freedom in software and stay away from non-free ones (and don't argue that you are "free to choose whatever program you want", because you are missing the point, like "I'm free to make me in slavery" , that is not a bright tactic at all :))

Hi I just installed Google Earth using the above instructions except I compiled the package on the desktop . Then I just clicked on the file folder and the installer came up . It installed perfect. Hope this helps.

What is the point? Why cannot you just download .bin from the Earth web-site and install it? 

I followed your instructions but when I tried to run Google Earth I received the following error:

/usr/bin/googleearth: 14: /usr/lib/googleearth/googleearth-bin: not found

Note the file actually exists and is set to executable. It turns out I also needed to install the lsb-core package. The following did the trick:

sudo apt-get install lsb-core

Now Google Earth runs fine. Thanks for the help!

 --duane

Thanks Duane!

I had this problem for a while, and installing lsb-core finally fixed it!

 How on (google) earth did you figure this out?

- Lars

First I had to install lsb-core :]

sudo apt-get install lsb-core

Then this tutorial works

After installing lsb-core and gdebi the installation was flawlessly in Ubuntu 10.10 64b, but when i try to run the program it cannot connect to the server kh.google.com and a lot of options of the program are grayed like I would started it with sudo in a previous version (which I never did). This is a pc without proxy, with dual boot and Earth in Win7 works O.K.

There is no error message in the Terminal or anything that can help and in the net there are a bunch with the same puzzling problem but no real solution... so sad.

Well, thanks for at least show me gdebi (I had several problems with dpkg and Google Earth before, and the --force option is not something I like). Finally I had a flawless installation.

Yea...perhaps a better way would be to simply download the .deb from google maybe? Just a thought.

I just installed it onto this Mint 17 O/S with this final command:

sudo gdebi googleearth_6.0.3.2197+1.1.0-1_i386.deb

And appears to be working fine.

Thanks, Ross