HOW TO: Install Google Earth in Gutsy and Hardy

[NightwishFan]

GOOGLE EARTH HOW TO: <('.'<)(>'.')>
This involves using the Medibuntu repository.
Also works for both 32bit and 64-bit.

You will have to accept the Google Earth EULA.


For Hardy:

Google Earth 4.3 (latest)
sudo wget http://www.medibuntu.org/sources.list.d/hardy.list -O /etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list && sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install medibuntu-keyring && sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install googleearth-4.3
Google Earth 4.2
sudo wget http://www.medibuntu.org/sources.list.d/hardy.list -O /etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list && sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install medibuntu-keyring && sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install googleearth

For Gutsy:

sudo wget http://www.medibuntu.org/sources.list.d/gutsy.list -O /etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list && sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install medibuntu-keyring && sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install googleearth


Please ask if you have any questions or additions to this how to. May the force be with you.

[donaldshelton]

I copied and pasted the code for 4.3.

After about 5 minutes of lots of gobbledy gook in the terminal window, I believe the program was downloaded and installed.

But how do I access the program? Should there be an icon on the desktop?

[kamitsukai]

I copied and pasted the code for 4.3.

After about 5 minutes of lots of gobbledy gook in the terminal window, I believe the program was downloaded and installed.

But how do I access the program? Should there be an icon on the desktop?

It should be located in Applications-->Internet-->Google Earth if not try the command

googleearth %f

in the terminal:KS

[donaldshelton]

It works, but the places on the globe are very distorted. the screen is fuzzy and looks a bit like the old test screens we used to have on the tv.

any advice?

[treesurf]

Google Earth runs extremely slowly on Ubuntu, but flys along just fine in Windows. I have an Intel Graphics Accelerator card, which I previously thought was running just fine in Ubuntu, but obviously there is some problem. Any ideas what I need to do to get Google Earth running at a reasonable speed?