10.10.:Google Earth

Peter,
Right click the file, go to Properties tab and check the box labeled "make executable". Close the window and double click the file.

Regards,
Ricardo

Hi Ricardo

It doesn't work and the switch 'Allow executing file as program' is already activated.
Peter

you might have a bad download.

press Ctl+Alt+T to get into terminal then type

sudo apt-get install google-earth

it will install automatically for you.

Hi Marcus

It doesn't work;

peter@peter:~$ sudo apt-get install google-earth
[sudo] password for peter:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package google-earth
peter@peter:~$

Peter

Peter,
Read this:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/GoogleEarth

Ricardo, it doesn't work. But forget it. I don't need it. Thanks.
Peter

Try to do this:

Open a terminal (CTRL+ALT+T)
cd ~/Desktop
wget http://dl.google.com/earth/client/current/GoogleEarthLinux.bin
chmod +x GoogleEarthLinux.bin
sudo ./GoogleEarthLinux.bin

and follow the instructions on the screen

It didn't work:

peter@peter:~$ cd ~/Desktop
peter@peter:~/Desktop$ wget http://dl.google.com/earth/client/current/GoogleEarthLinux.bin
--2010-11-27 17:48:23-- http://dl.google.com/earth/client/current/GoogleEarthLinux.bin
Resolving dl.google.com... 209.85.229.93, 209.85.229.91, 209.85.229.190, ...
Connecting to dl.google.com|209.85.229.93|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 31406473 (30M) [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: `GoogleEarthLinux.bin'

100%[======================================>] 31,406,473 1.26M/s in 34s

2010-11-27 17:48:57 (915 KB/s) - `GoogleEarthLinux.bin' saved [31406473/31406473]

peter@peter:~/Desktop$ chmod +x GoogleEarthLinux.bin
peter@peter:~/Desktop$ sudo ./GoogleEarthLinux.bin
[sudo] password for peter:
Verifying archive integrity... All good.
Uncompressing Google Earth for GNU/Linux 5.2.1.1588..............................................................
setup.data/setup.xml:1: parser error : Document is empty

^
setup.data/setup.xml:1: parser error : Start tag expected, '<' not found

^
Couldn't load 'setup.data/setup.xml'
peter@peter:~/Desktop$ ^C
Peter

I tried to install the application as I mentioned above and did not work for me. Following some research it (Saint Google) and the correct way to install the application is as follows:

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

That worked for me, I hope for you too

Regards,
Ricardo

No, it doesn't work. But forget it. And thanks a lot.
Peter