Let's say you downloaded foo.tar.xz to Downloads, the idea is to extract it in /opt/google/earth/free and replace the files there with the same names
so you change directory to /opt/google/opt/free and extract
Code:
cd /opt/google/earth/free
sudo tar xvf ~/Downloads/foo.tar.xz
That's it. I am not making a duplicate and then symlink it. I think it was just for caution that the instructions were like that when they were first posted, but now we know the worst thing that can happen is that it doesn't work, there is no need to back up /opt/google/earth/free
Edited: the patch might not have worked for you because you installed a 32 bit google-earth
To install the 64-bit, first uninstall your version, then download 64 bit ge from google
right click the .deb and click 'extract here" , then delete the origin .deb. Then open the extracted folder and go to Debian and edit the control file, remove ia32 from the "depends on"
line and now rebuild the .deb as follows:
Let's say the extracted folder is called google-earth-current-stable_amd64 and it is on your desktop,
Code:
cd Desktop
dpkg -b google-earh-current-stable_amd64
Then install it by right clicking
It will install but won't run, to run it you need some dependencies
Code:
sudo apt-get install libc6:i386 lsb-core
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