Google Earth is a virtual globe, map, and geographic information program. This tutorial will assist with the installation of Google Earth on Ubuntu Linux. Google Earth allows you to travel the world through a virtual globe and view satellite imagery, maps, terrain, 3D buildings, and much more. Installing Google Earth can be a challenging experience because of the limited information available on the main website located at Google Earth. Google Earth was also created using the Qt SDK. This tutorial will also work on Linux Mint.
1Prepare your system by installing necessary libraries and packages, open a terminal and enter the following.
- Type/Copy/Paste: sudo -s apt-get install ia32-libs
2If you should encounter any dependencies error messages type the following below to resolve them
- Type/Copy/Paste: sudo apt-get -f install
- Select "Y" for yes and install all the necessary packages the system requires, it may take quite some time. As your system will need to download and install the appropriate packages and libraries to complete the installation.
- Type/Copy/Paste: sudo apt-get install lsb-core msttcorefonts
3Determine your operating system architecture, either 32-bit or 64-bit
- Type/Copy/Paste: file /sbin/init
- Note the bit version of your Ubuntu Linux operating system architecture it will display whether it is 32-bit or 64-bit.
4Select the *.deb package installation method for your system architecture, either 32-bit or 64-bit Ubuntu Linux
5Usually the Google Earth *.deb is downloaded to /home/"your_user_name"/Downloads
6Change into your Downloads folder
- Type/Copy/Paste: cd /home/"your_user_name"/Downloads
7Install the *.deb file by issuing the following command
32-bit installation method
- Type/Copy/Paste: sudo -s dpkg -i google-earth-stable_current_i386.deb
64-bit installation method
- Type/Copy/Paste: sudo -s dpkg -i google-earth-stable_current_amd64.deb
- 32-bit installation method
8In order to run Google Earth, click on your applications menu and select Google Earth or run from the terminal using the following command:
- Type/Copy/Paste: google-earth
9If you have correctly followed the steps above, you should now have Google earth installed on your system.
10At anytime should you choose to remove Google Earth from your system you can run the following command
- Type/Copy/Paste: dpkg -r google-earth-stable
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