I cannot get Google Earth to load correctly onto Ubuntu 14.04

Please copy-paste these Terminal commands one by one into the Terminal:

cd $HOME
rm -rf $HOME/.googleearth
sudo rm -rf /opt/google-earth && sudo rm /usr/share/mime/application/vnd.google-earth.* /usr/share/mimelnk/application/vnd.google-earth.* /usr/share/applnk/Google-googleearth.desktop /usr/share/mime/packages/googleearth-mimetypes.xml /usr/share/gnome/apps/Google-googleearth.desktop /usr/share/applications/Google-googleearth.desktop /usr/local/bin/googleearth
sudo rm googleearth*.deb
sudo rm google-earth*.deb
sudo rm GoogleEarth*
sudo dpkg -P google-earth
sudo dpkg -P googleearth
# install new Google Earth
sudo DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt-get --yes --force-yes install libfreeimage3 lib32nss-mdns multiarch-support lsb-core googleearth-package
sudo make-googleearth-package --force
sudo dpkg -i googleearth*.deb
sudo DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt-get --yes --force-yes -f install

Each line starting with cd, rm or sudo is a separate command in this case.

Hello Mark,

You are an absolute star. I haven't had too much time to try it out
but this is a totally different Google Earth to the one I know and it
seems to be working perfectly. I don't know how to thank you except to
say THANK YOU!!!!!!!! Your solution has made Google Earth work on
LINUX 14.04. Tell Google about it!!

Mark may I ask where you live? I am in Gordons Bay, South Africa.

Cheers and all the best.

Bob
GW Bob Heasman

On 26 November 2014 at 18:31, Mark Rijckenberg
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> Mark Rijckenberg posted a new comment:
> Each line starting with cd, rm or sudo is a separate command in this
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Thank you!

Glad to see someone created an alternative that actually works.

I just tried this on my machine but ended up with dependency problem for libcurl3:i386,
Sorry that the output is in Swedish but it should be understandable,
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~$ sudo dpkg -i googleearth*.deb
Väljer tidigare ej valt paket googleearth.
(Läser databasen ... 185303 filer och kataloger installerade.)
Förbereder att packa upp googleearth_6.0.3.2197+1.1.0-1_amd64.deb ...
Packar upp googleearth (6.0.3.2197+1.1.0-1) ...
dpkg: beroendeproblem förhindrar konfigurering av googleearth:
 googleearth är beroende av libcurl3:i386, men:

dpkg: fel vid hantering av paketet googleearth (--install):
 beroendeproblem - lämnar okonfigurerad
Hanterar utlösare för gnome-menus (3.10.1-0ubuntu2) ...
Hanterar utlösare för desktop-file-utils (0.22-1ubuntu1) ...
Hanterar utlösare för bamfdaemon (0.5.1+14.04.20140409-0ubuntu1) ...
Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/bamf-2.index...
Hanterar utlösare för mime-support (3.54ubuntu1.1) ...
Hanterar utlösare för shared-mime-info (1.2-0ubuntu3) ...
Fel uppstod vid hantering:
 googleearth
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check of installed libcurl3:
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~$ dpkg --list libcurl*
Önskat=Okänd(U)/Installera(I)/Radera(R)/Rensa(P)/Håll(H)
| Status.=Ej inst.(N)/(I)nst./Konffil.(C)/(U)ppack./Halvkonf.(F)/(H)alvinst.
| / Vänt.utl(W)/Föresl.utl(T)
|/ Fel?Inget(=)/Ominstallera(R)/Båda(X) (Status,Fel: versaler=illa)
||/ Namn Version Arkitektur Beskrivning
+++-============================-===================-===================-==============================================================
ii libcurl3:amd64 7.35.0-1ubuntu2.3 amd64 easy-to-use client-side URL transfer library (OpenSSL flavour)
ii libcurl3-gnutls:amd64 7.35.0-1ubuntu2.3 amd64 easy-to-use client-side URL transfer library (GnuTLS flavour)
un libcurl4-gnutls-dev <ingen> <ingen> (beskrivning saknas)
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Any clue on why this happens to my very new install?
- 3.16.0-30-generic #40~14.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Thu Jan 15 17:43:14 UTC 2015 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

@Igor Lopez (igor-lopez): this thread already has status 'solved'.

Please create your own question here:

https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+addquestion

Thanks, did it here
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/262632

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