How do I install Google earth 7?

[j-lbarbry]

Hello !
I tried several solutions, including those described above (deleting a line in the control file and rebuilding package, but I still get the same error message: error while loading shared libraries: libGL.so.1
If I try to link some ligGL.so to /usr/lib/googleearth I get : error while loading shared libraries: libGL.so.1: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64
regards

[Smask]

Hello !
I tried several solutions, including those described above (deleting a line in the control file and rebuilding package, but I still get the same error message: error while loading shared libraries: libGL.so.1
If I try to link some ligGL.so to /usr/lib/googleearth I get : error while loading shared libraries: libGL.so.1: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64
regards

Did you use the Amirpli libs on 32-bit Google Earth? They only works on 64-bit GE.

[j-lbarbry]

No, in my usr/lib32 directory I have only libnss_xxx, libz.so and gconv directory.
I have many problems with 13.10 (cups, virtualBoxGuestAddition ...)

[robenroute]

Hey stidmatt, if you are using an x64 computer then please follow these instructions. Thanks goes to mc4man for these instructions in getting Google Earth to work.
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The Repackaged Google Earth Will Now Be Installed.

The problem with Panoramio photos not loading:
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Build the deb file and install

Thanks guys! Your instructions got everything in working order again. Plain and simple! Many thanks again.

[trash1464]

Hey stidmatt, if you are using an x64 computer then please follow these instructions. Thanks goes to mc4man for these instructions in getting Google Earth to work.

This is just a temporary workaround until Google Earth no longer required ia32-libs.

Google Earth Build Package

Download Google Earth x64 .DEB

Open Terminal, Copy & Paste Following Command And Press Enter

sudo apt-get install libc6:i386 lsb-core

Open Downloads Folder

Right Click On Google Earth .DEB Package & Select Extract Here

Click On Debian Folder

Right Click on Control & Select Open In Gedit

Remove The Whole Line Containing

Depends: lsb-core (>= 3.2), ia32-libs

Now Click Save, & Exit Control File

Now Delete The Original Google Earth .DEB Package You Downloaded

Create A Folder called getfix, Now Move The Extracted Google Earth Folder Into The getfix Folder

Now You Are Going To Rebuild The Google Earth .DEB Package

Open Terminal, Copy & Paste Following Command & Press Enter

dpkg -b /home/denis/Downloads/getfix/google-earth-stable_current_amd64

Once You Have Done That, Back In Terminal Copy & Paste The Following Command

sudo dpkg -i /home/denis/Downloads/getfix/google-earth-stable_current_amd64.deb

The Repackaged Google Earth Will Now Be Installed.

This worked like a charm for me, running 13.10 - 64 bit many thanks!

[sascha-baumeister]

This is the only sollution i found that really worked for me, thanks a lot!

Note that I had to temporarily allow write access to the two ".so"-files within the opt/google/earth/free/plugins/imageformats" Folder in order to overwrite them with the patched replacements (using "sudo chmod a+w <filename>" to grant it, and "sudo chmod a-w <filename>" once the patches were copied).

Also, note that I had to change ownership of the files and directories in "getfix" to "root" (using "sudo chown -R root:root *") before building the deb-File, in order to avoid warnings from the Ubuntu Software Center during installation because of a misbuilt deb-File - this might however not happen if you install the deb-File using dpkg.

The resulting google-earth installation seems to run pretty stable in earth view under Ubuntu Gnome 13.10 (64bit). However, I noticed that it consistently crashes when I try to switch from earth to moon view. Any ideas what might cause that?

[Smask]

Never mind, my post borks searches

[erhollowell]

What do I do if, after running the first line the .deb package trys to install without me doing anything and after watching the downloads and install run you find that you don't have any googleearth icon or any files in your download page, what can you do? Please remember that some of us already have botched installs on our systems which do not work but interfer with further attempts to install.

My last attempt went: [following entering password for sudo]
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
lsb-core is already the newest version.
libc6:i386 is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.


Yet I don't have Googleearth.

[Smask]

What do I do if, after running the first line the .deb package trys to install without me doing anything and after watching the downloads and install run you find that you don't have any googleearth icon or any files in your download page, what can you do? Please remember that some of us already have botched installs on our systems which do not work but interfer with further attempts to install.

My last attempt went: [following entering password for sudo]
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
lsb-core is already the newest version.
libc6:i386 is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.


Yet I don't have Googleearth.

You clicked run instead of save the file? If so, the browser saves it to /tmp and run it from there. It will stay there until you exits or restarts the browser, or reboot the computer. After that, the file is gone and you have to download it again.

[Herman]

Thank you scouser73 & Smask, your helpful instructions post #9 and Post #10 worked for me