Install Google Earth

[the_c]

Nice howto. Thank's!

[george_apan]

To uninstall Google Earth go to your home directory or wherever you installed Google Earth at. There should be a folder there called google-earth. Click on that folder and in it you should find a uninstall script.

The thing is I don't know where it is installed or the name of the script. I installed it using sudo and it probably went somewhere in my /usr directory but I don't know where...

edit: nevermind, I got it. It's in /usr/local/google-earth. Thanks!

[Rizado]

Think I've got my drivers sorted out - it now runs smoothly (I said it ran slow in my post earlier)... but it crashes randomly, with no warnings. Any idea what the problem there is? Not a big deal, no problem to restart, just wondering what could cause it...

If you run through a console you might see that a crash report is generated and where, then it'll be sent to google the next time you start google earth. It's still beta and is the first linux release so expect some crashes.

[nickm]

is there a way to get it to show up in the menu?

[simplyw00x]

is there a way to get it to show up in the menu?

Yes, yes there is.

sudo cp /usr/local/google-earth/googleearth.desktop /usr/share/applications/

[nickm]

Thanks!

[Hobitus]

Excellent, now i can see my city in Linux too

[MadL]

sounds like a video card problem, what video card do you hav?

Looks like an ATI Rage 128 Pro Ultra TF

[weijie90]

i have the same problem. Rage 128 timed out.
please help...

[Shish]

Same here; and an opengl app I wrote myself no longer works either -- the kernel says

[drm:r128_cce_depth] *ERROR* r128_cce_depth called without lock held
[drm:r128_cce_idle] *ERROR* r128_cce_idle called without lock held

so it looks like one of opengl, X, or the kernel broke the r128 driver recently...