[PLUG] Google Earth in Ubuntu

donkyhotay donkyhotay at verizon.net
Wed Sep 24 13:54:44 UTC 2008


If you have ubuntu, google earth is in the non-free medibuntu 
repositories which is how I installed it on my system. Thats the easiest 
way I know to install google earth on ubuntu and it might help you work 
around your installation issues.


On Tue, 23 Sep 2008, Richard C. Steffens wrote:
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>> Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2008 19:35:00 -0700
>> From: Richard C. Steffens <rsteff at comcast.net>
>> Reply-To: "General Linux/UNIX discussion and help;	civil and on-topic"
>>     <plug at lists.pdxlinux.org>
>> To: PLUG List <plug at lists.pdxlinux.org>
>> Subject: [PLUG] Google Earth in Ubuntu
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>> I installed Google Earth from a .bin file I downloaded in April. I used
>> the command:
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>> sudo sh GoogleEarthLinux.bin
>>
>> When if finished I had the option of quitting or starting the program. I
>> didn't think about the fact that the program would be running with root
>> privileges and went ahead and started it. It worked for a while and then
>> failed (as reported in an earlier set of posts). Once I recovered from
>> that problem I tried running it again. The splash screen displayed and
>> the program window opened, but the star field did not move and the earth
>> did not appear. I went looking on the web for folks with similar
>> experiences and found the warning about not running it at the end of the
>> install. I found another instruction on how to uninstall it, did so, and
>> then tried re-installing it the "right" way. Same result -- program
>> window but no earth. I uninstalled it again and found that there is a
>> package for it, so installed it once again with apt-get. Same problem.
>>
>> Any ideas on what to do next?
>>
>> -- 
>> Regards,
>>
>> Dick Steffens
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> I would install and run it as a normal user, not root.  Also, I would
> get into Tools > Options and check the box for using graphics "safe
> mode".
>
> I have three computers that I try to run it on.  On the ultra-cheap
> nvidia geforce 2 card, it works like a champ.  On the ATI Mobility, it
> works but I have to be careful or it will crash.  On the new, fancy CAD
> workstation at work with a modern nvidia card, it immediately crashes X.
> To really troubleshoot googleearth, one needs to take hardware into
> acount.  What kind of graphics card do you have?
>
> Carlos
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