Google Earth on Linux

[Master Shake]

Has anyone gotten Google Earth to work on Linux, say through WINE?

[jyank]

Nope. I've tried with wine a cvswine and always get an error upon installation. I even tried it with cedega, cedega gave me a different error, but still wouldn't install

[TrailerTrash]

I tried it with CrossOver and a no-go....I really like Google Earth and use it on my crappy ole Xp system:eek:
Other than that..I do hope oneday it will be a Linux version out. :smile:

[GeneralZod]

I'm wondering if Google would allow people to create an Open Source client. The Google Maps API is, I think, freely available (though Javascript only...?), but the terms and conditions stipulate that the client may not obscure any ads that Google want to add. I wonder if anyone has ever approached them about this?

[UbuWu]

Try World Wind 2D (http://ww2d.berlios.de/)... it is still very new and buggy, but looks promising!

[YourSurrogateGod]

Here (http://code.google.com/apis.html#earth) is their API, so if someone knows how to make it work in Linux, knock yourself out.

[23meg]

http://earth.google.com/earth_fusion.html

google earth fusion seems to work in linux; but i think it just works for entering new geographical data.

[UbuWu]

Another nice one:

apt-get install earth3d :razz:

(only works on breezy)

[whiterabbit]

Another nice one:

apt-get install earth3d :razz:

(only works on breezy)Just noticed this one. Cheers.

[heimo]

Another nice one:

apt-get install earth3d :razz:

(only works on breezy)
Nice!
homepage with some screenshots:
http://earth3d.org/
http://sourceforge.net/project/screenshots.php?group_id=107449

[-Rick-]

Another nice one:

apt-get install earth3d :razz:

(only works on breezy)

Indeed pretty cool :)
Although images(of Holland) are way less detailed than those from Google Earth.

[mokeyjoe]

I posted this in another thread but I guess its at home here. Google working on Google Earth for Linux:

http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;1401986683;fp;16;fpid;0

Anyone heard about this?

[LinuxWiz83]

Earth3d is not even close to google earth because you can not enter the address, city, state, country like google earth. Well from what i notice it is very slow and it is only viewing maps and zooming in on the location you click on but you can not find your exact location that way. I am not saying it sucks just that have a lot of improvement.

[angrykeyboarder]

I'm wondering if Google would allow people to create an Open Source client. The Google Maps API is, I think, freely available (though Javascript only...?), but the terms and conditions stipulate that the client may not obscure any ads that Google want to add. I wonder if anyone has ever approached them about this?

Considering Google runs on Linux I'm hopefull that we'll see Google Earth on Linux before too long.

[LinuxWiz83]

Yea i know it is being development but i have yet to come across when though but like you said it will be soon though.

[suoko]

What about this?
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Install_GoogleEarth_with_wine

Is that true?
I answer. It's true !!!
I couldn't belive it!
add following line to your /etc/apt/sources.list before
deb http://wine.sourceforge.net/apt/ binary/
and do an
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade

Than just follow the instructions !!
Good luck

[blastus]

How is Google Earth different from Google Maps?

[Master Shake]

For one, it covers the whole eart. Two, its in 3 dimensions. IE, you can zoom in on a mountain, and instead of being a flat sattelite photo, you can actually view the mountain in three dimensions. Three, it shows 3-d represntations of famous buildings (Although its kinda buggy. The Luxor in Las Vegas looks like a huge block instead of a pyramid)

I know there's others, but its a program that one really needs to see for one's self.

I am looking forward to the Linux version.

[xmastree]

For me the bigest difference is the seamless zooming. With google maps if you zoom in the screen goes blank while the individual squares load. With google earth the whole thing just gets larger, then slowly becomes clearer. Like downloading an interlaced image file.

Then there's the keyhole bbs thing. Somebody will spot something and post a downloadable link, which will take you to exactly the same view they had when they created it.

[Jade Robbins]

They just released Google Earth for linux, but it's definetly a beta. I might have to surf some of the forums for 3d help because it's slower than molasas!

[KanRiNiN]

I tried to install it but received a segmentation fault. Any ideas? If you could provide me with a command to log the errors since I don't know how to do that, I'd pastebin them. The splash screen displays fine though :-/. Could the fault be due to using ATI drivers?

[halfvolle melk]

It's running fine here with the ATi 8.25.18 drivers. I just downloaded it, chmod -x GoogleEarth.bin and install it.

[cbudden]

Running slow when using XGL, but fast with xorg.

[xmastree]

Woo Hoo! Works right out of the box for me. :D

11127

And it seems faster than the Windows version too.

[_mobius_]

I fired it up no problem with "sh GoogleEarth.bin" and it installed happily. When I run it looks like the attachment.

[peacerist]

Hi,

I have the same situation as _mobius_ has on Ubuntu Breezy on amd64 with nvidia video card. Tiles mixed up.

But when I connect to my 64-bit machine from a remote 32-bit using "ssh -Y" everything works fine.

Hope some comes with a solution.

[nalmeth]

Works out-of-the-box.
Sweet