How do I install Google Earth in 10.10?

[TopFan]

Title says it all. I've tried numerous methods that have worked on past versions of Ubuntu, but none of them seem to work now.

[alphacrucis2]

Title says it all. I've tried numerous methods that have worked on past versions of Ubuntu, but none of them seem to work now.

Medibuntu don't have it for Maverick yet.

Have you tried:

sudo apt-get install googlearth-package
make-googleearth-package --force
sudo dpkg -i *.deb

If you are running 64 bit you also have to make sure that the ia32-libs package is installed. I would be interested to know how you get on as for me it just crashes with a signal 6 error on startup just after displaying the googleearth splash screen.

[oldos2er]

Download GoogleEarthLinux.bin (http://www.google.com/earth/download/ge/agree.html), open a terminal and run

cd Downloads
chmod a+x GoogleEarthLinux.bin
sudo ./GoogleEarthLinux.bin

[oldos2er]

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[TopFan]

I've cut and pasted both suggested codes into Terminal, but no luck.

After pasting Ann's code, terminal asks me for my password, but won't let me type anything.

[emoguitarist06]

Check this site
http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2010/10/g...-ubuntu-10-10/

[natravis]

I've cut and pasted both suggested codes into Terminal, but no luck.

After pasting Ann's code, terminal asks me for my password, but won't let me type anything.

It will appear that you aren't typing anything, but if you type in your password then hit enter, stuff will happen. Magic!

[TopFan]

It will appear that you aren't typing anything, but if you type in your password then hit enter, stuff will happen. Magic!

I tried that, but it didn't work.

Here's what I get when I paste Ann's code into terminal:

topfan@topfanlaptop:~$ cd Downloads
topfan@topfanlaptop:~/Downloads$ chmod a+x GoogleEarthLinux.bin
chmod: cannot access `GoogleEarthLinux.bin': No such file or directory
topfan@topfanlaptop:~/Downloads$ sudo ./GoogleEarthLinux.bin

It no longer asks me for my password. GoogleEarthLinux.bin is on my desktop, but terminal can't see it.

[redbook4574]

I tried that, but it didn't work.

Here's what I get when I paste Ann's code into terminal:

topfan@topfanlaptop:~$ cd Downloads
topfan@topfanlaptop:~/Downloads$ chmod a+x GoogleEarthLinux.bin
chmod: cannot access `GoogleEarthLinux.bin': No such file or directory
topfan@topfanlaptop:~/Downloads$ sudo ./GoogleEarthLinux.bin

It no longer asks me for my password. GoogleEarthLinux.bin is on my desktop, but terminal can't see it.

Ok here goes, slightly convoluted but it worked for me.

1. install googleearth-package in synaptic
2. open a terminal window and run "sudo make-googleearth-package --force" (without the quotation marks).

3. This will take approx 10 mins to complete and will generate many errors, don't worry about these just now.

4. When step 3 has completed run the following command in terminal "sudo dpkg -i googleearth_5.2.1.1588+0.5.7-1_i386.deb"

5. All being well you should now have google earth in application-internet.

6. If it crashes on opening, in terminal run "gedit ~/.config/Google/GoogleEarthPlus.conf" and if the line enableTips=true exists change it to enableTips=false, if it does not exist add the line enableTips=false under the[General] heading and save the file.

Hopefully everything will then work.

[oldos2er]

I tried that, but it didn't work.

Here's what I get when I paste Ann's code into terminal:

topfan@topfanlaptop:~$ cd Downloads
topfan@topfanlaptop:~/Downloads$ chmod a+x GoogleEarthLinux.bin
chmod: cannot access `GoogleEarthLinux.bin': No such file or directory
topfan@topfanlaptop:~/Downloads$ sudo ./GoogleEarthLinux.bin

It no longer asks me for my password. GoogleEarthLinux.bin is on my desktop, but terminal can't see it.

I thought you would download it to your ~/Downloads directory; if it's on your desktop, run cd Desktop instead.