Installing Google Earth on 12.04 Doesn't work for me.

[suomalainen]

Ubunteros,

I'm running 12.04LTS. I want to install Google Earth but it appears to be an incomplete install.

When I launch Google earth I get the "globe" but no land masses appear. Only yellow border lines outlining countries is the only thing I see.

I downloaded the package from the Google earth web site and the file name is:

google-earth-stable_current_i386.2.deb

Thanks for your help.!

[suomalainen]

Finally!

Found these and now it works!


http://linuxforums.org.uk/index.php?topic=10397.0

To install Google Earth (stable) in Ubuntu 12.04, or Peppermint Three from this PPA:
http://www.ubuntuupdates.org/ppa/google_earth
(use the commands below, NOT the commands listed at the above link, or you'll end up with 2 duplicate sources which will cause you issues in the future)

Open a terminal, and run these 4 commands in sequence:
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wget -q -O - https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub | sudo apt-key add -

sudo sh -c 'echo "deb http://dl.google.com/linux/earth/deb/ stable main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-earth.list'

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install google-earth-stable

[TedinOz]

Finally!

Found these and now it works!


http://linuxforums.org.uk/index.php?topic=10397.0

To install Google Earth (stable) in Ubuntu 12.04, or Peppermint Three from this PPA:
http://www.ubuntuupdates.org/ppa/google_earth
(use the commands below, NOT the commands listed at the above link, or you'll end up with 2 duplicate sources which will cause you issues in the future)

Open a terminal, and run these 4 commands in sequence:
Quote

wget -q -O - https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub | sudo apt-key add -

sudo sh -c 'echo "deb http://dl.google.com/linux/earth/deb/ stable main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-earth.list'

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install google-earth-stable

Excellent! Finally it works! Thank you!

[SuperFreak]

Thanks...worked for me also

[rburkartjo]

ted tks for the info didnt work for me though

[rewyllys]

Suomalainen, many thanks!

Your four command-line instructions worked like a charm for me in Linux Mint 13, which is based on Ubuntu 12.04.

[ZACHSP8]

Thank you, works fine on Kubuntu.

[lillyvip]

Thanks suomalainen, definitely works!

[suomalainen]

Thank you fellow Ubunteros for the kinds words! Much appreciated!

[smauleon]

Worked for me too, in three 12.04 machines. It's Google Earth 7 that doesn't show the maps, and these instructions install version 6.

Thanks a lot!