cannot install google earth

Open terminal and type:

unset http_proxy
unset ftp_proxy
wget http://dl.google.com/earth/client/current/GoogleEarthLinux.bin

Hope this helps

Hi Andrew:
Download Google Earth to your desktop. Right click with your mouse and give it permission to become an executable file. Look under Permissions. Once that is done, a box will appear asking you if you want to Run the file. Choose the one that says Run (on the right hand side) and click on that and it should install to your /home/andrew (whatever name you use/googleearth folder. The icon will be on your desktop (blue and white ball). All you have to do after that is click twice on your desktop icon and it should open. Don't forget to regulate your screen resolution to 1024 first. Also, it will be a little slow. The first time I downloaded I couldn't figure out what was wrong until I realised that the file needed permission to become an executable file. Mine works just fine. Hope this helps.

haha Thanks Sandra, I was looking for help with something else and stumbled on this and found it very helpful because I gave up on trying to install Earth yesterday.

hi sandra could you please give me a more detailed instructions , i am farley new tolinux and dont realy have much idea of what to do soneed stepby step idiot proof instructions please . thanks andrew

Andrew please try this one, from terminal:

unset http_proxy
unset ftp_proxy
wget http://dl.google.com/earth/client/current/GoogleEarthLinux.bin

sh GoogleEarthLinux.bin

and you are ready

Hope this help

hi again sandra managed to work it out i have installed it on my tablet and it works great thanks very much for your help i realy missed google earth . thats another item fixed frommy linux list few more togobut sure i will get there if more people like you continue to help its most appreciated thanks again andrew

i have installed it on all my other machines works slow on one looks like i need a better video card driver dont know how to update this , and my oldest machine wont work with it when you start google the google earth sybal comes up and then the pc does a fast restart i have tolog in agian to reuse the pc , it flashes up a screen with terminal info but i cannot read it as it disapears so fast , is there a way to freeze this so i can read it . this machine is below the recomended spec it is pentium 2 333mhz , maybe its to slow and old to run it , has anyone got it running on machine similar to my spec . Andrew

if i cannot use google earth on this machine how do i uninstal it please

Try using Automatix.

what is automatix please

Thanks marcobra, that solved my question.

I have the same problem as Andrew, but Sandra's solution doesn't work. Even with permission to execute, the 'bin' file will not run. And the Medibuntu version, when attempted, returns the message, 'dependency not satisfiable'--a delicious, but to me utterly incomprehensible, locution. Any suggestion will be appreciated, Rick

@rick

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