Problem installing Google Earth in 14.04

Asked by Igor Lopez

I did successfully install the latest Google Earth package(rev 7.1 something) on my new PC but could not find a solution for the Panoramio picture only showing an empty frame.

In https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/258292 there is a description on how to install the old rev 6 which worked with Panoramio on my old PC so I followed that procedure but got stuck at last step:

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

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Best Mark Rijckenberg (markrijckenberg) said :
#1

Your Terminal output shows you what the issue is:

"googleearth är beroende av libcurl3:i386, men:"

You installed libcurl3:amd64 , but not libcurl3:i386

You need to install libcurl3:i386

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Igor Lopez (igor-lopez) said :
#2

Thanks Mark Rijckenberg, that solved my question.