Google Earth Fonts VERY Ugly

[WildZontar]

I'm having a problem with a new installation of Google Earth on Ubuntu 11.04. The fonts look VERY ugly. Is there something I'm supposed to do or install? I already have ttf-mscorefonts installed or whatever it was.

[linuxinstalledfromhdd]

Uninstall it and reinstall it from the Google Earth PPA repository like this:

http://cinderbox.net/2011/05/11/how-...y-narwhal-ppa/

[WildZontar]

Did it. No change.

[linuxinstalledfromhdd]

You needed to use a walkthrough when you installed your version of Ubuntu.

You forgot to install:

sudo apt-get install ttf-mscorefonts-installer

Try using a walkthrough or guide to make sure you have everything installed on your system you are going to need probably.

http://cinderbox.net/2011/04/03/to-d...natty-narwhal/

Here is one for the older version 10.10:

http://cinderbox.net/2010/12/23/to-d...erick-meerkat/

[AlphaLexman]

See this fix, worked for me on 9.10.
Google Earth Menu's & Text Oversized in Linux Ubuntu 9.10

[WildZontar]

This did not work for me either. I recieved an error about libraries when attempting to load.

I will use windows in my dualboot to use GE instead.

[AlphaLexman]

Please post the error you received.

[nerdy_kid]

try:

export LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libfreeimage.so.3

LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib:.:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH /opt/google/earth/free/googleearth-bin "$@"

try each line separately in a terminal. If it works, then I'll tell you how to make it permanent.

[linuxinstalledfromhdd]

This did not work for me either. I recieved an error about libraries when attempting to load.

I will use windows in my dualboot to use GE instead.

Wow. Did you uninstall it before you tried to fix it? Did you use the PPA I gave you?

Did you install the stable one from the PPA?

Make sure you check out the walkthrough I sent you. Goodluck.

[sundar_ima]

Here is the solution.

Do all with sudo:
1) go to /opt/google/earth/free
2) rm -rf libcurl.so.4 libGLU.so.1 libnss_mdns4_minimal.so.2 libQtCore.so.4 libQtGui.so.4 libQtNetwork.so.4 libQtWebKit.so.4 # we will use system libraries instead of these ones
3) edit googleearth, add line "export LD_PRELOAD=libfreeimage.so.3" before line 'LD_LIBRARY_PATH=.:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH ./googleearth-bin "$@"'
4) copy libfreeimage.so.3 and plugins/ from http://goo.gl/GxLQw (and libphonon.so.4, if running on x86_64) to /opt/google/earth/free

Solution was found on this page
http://www.google.com.tw/support/for...4f63bcd8&hl=en