Google Earth Package - Ubuntu Software Center

[coljohnhannibalsmith]

I've just installed "googleearth-package" from the Ubuntu Software Center.

Now what do I do with it?



Thanks, Hannibal

[sanderd17]

press ALT+F2 and type "googleearth"

[coljohnhannibalsmith]

Wow,

That was fast!

I get the following error message when I try it:

Error stating file '/home/sophie/googleearth': No such file or directory

[karthick87]

Dont you find google-earth in Applications Menu???

[coljohnhannibalsmith]

Sorry, no.

I checked for it twice!

[karthick87]

How did you installed it??

[ottosykora]

there is no app resulting from this install, this is just some kind of life installer to grab and compile the gogle earth from google itself. The app itself does not do anything.
Check for some man files which came with it.

[tdockery97]

The googleearth-package downloads Google Earth and makes it into a .deb package. Open terminal and type:

make-googleearth-package --force

It will then download the googleearth .bin file and convert it into a .deb file. Then just use dpkg or gdebi to install the .deb package.

Don't be alarmed when it gives a bunch of error messages while building the .deb package. This is normal.

[coljohnhannibalsmith]

The googleearth-package downloads Google Earth and makes it into a .deb package. Open terminal and type:

make-googleearth-package --force

It will then download the googleearth .bin file and convert it into a .deb file. Then just use dpkg or gdebi to install the .deb package.

Don't be alarmed when it gives a bunch of error messages while building the .deb package. This is normal.

Thank you,

That worked; but it wouldn't run when I tried to launch it. It was then removed from the repository stating that the architecture was incompatible. The .deb from Google earth wouldn't run either.

Does anyone know if this has been corrected?

[coljohnhannibalsmith]

Finally,

Their x64 .deb package now works under Unbuntu..


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