cannot start google earth in user account

[antony_css]

I typed "sudo googleearthlinux.bin" to install the google earth.

The google earth run perfectly when I typed "sudo googleearth".
But when I typed "googleearth", only a empty window is opened. It only show me the dark background with stars shining in it that I can drag with my mouse. However, the Earth never appear.

Does google earth reads configration files only in root account? How can I solve it?

[NightwishFan]

Uninstall googleearth with the uninstall.sh script. Then add the medibuntu repositories and install it from there, it seems more stable. How to install in one command for hardy:


sudo wget http://www.medibuntu.org/sources.list.d/hardy.list -O /etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list && sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install medibuntu-keyring && sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install googleearth-4.3

Just tested now on Hardy and it works. (Remember to accept the google earth license when it comes up.)

[abh83]

Uninstall googleearth with the uninstall.sh script. Then add the medibuntu repositories and install it from there, it seems more stable. How to install in one command for hardy:


sudo wget http://www.medibuntu.org/sources.list.d/hardy.list -O /etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list && sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install medibuntu-keyring && sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install googleearth-4.3

Just tested now on Hardy and it works. (Remember to accept the google earth license when it comes up.)

I just followed your method but I can only launch google earth through the terminal and with sudo


sudo googleearth

any help there?

[abh83]

okay problem solved! i just followed gmenezesg advice off this thread: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=206711

:)

[marciowb]

Thanks, Abh83!

I follow the instructions at http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=4831767&postcount=5 and now I can run Google Earth without the sudo googleearth
I just delete the following user directory:
sudo rm -rf ~/.googleearth
sudo rm -rf ~/.config/Google

Thank you,
Marcio Wesley Borges (http://www.marciowb.net/blog)