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I have downloaded Google Earth. I am a novice. How do I install?

Asked by Frank

The Google site for Google Earth indicates that to install downloaded Google Earth it is necessary to go to "terminal" and to navigate to a directory and enter ">...." I have tried to find a way to "get there" with no success, and the terminal help section of Ubuntu is not clear enough to my novice ability to enable me to know what to do.

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Frank (fnb123456789) said : 		#1

Do I receive an email response; where do I go from here? Thank-you.

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Frank (fnb123456789) said : 		#2

Do I receive an email response; where do I go from here? Thank-you.

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Best Gord Allott (gordallott) said : 		#3

you can find info on installing google earth here: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/GoogleEarth

also please be patent when asking for support requests, it make take anywhere from five minutes to five hours to get a reply, its vollenteer supported.

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arochester (arochester) said : 		#4

1) Google Earth is available from the Medibuntu repository. You can add this repository. Read https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Medibuntu . The package can then be installed by connecting to the internet, opening a terminal and using: sudo apt-get install googleearth

2) Being able to navigate using the terminal is fairly basic stuff. When I open a terminal I am in my "home" and I can show the contents by using: ls (this stands for list). I have a directory, which I created called Downloads and I can change to it by using: cd Downloads (cd for change directory)(Remember it is case sensitive!) I can look at the contents of that by using ls again. Then I can move back down with cd .. (that's cd (space) two dots)

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marcobra (Marco Braida) (marcobra) said : 		#5

Howto install Skype and googleearth

Please simply add the medibuntu https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Medibuntu repository to install Skype and/or GoogleEarth.

-- Please open a Terminal from the menu Applications → Accessories → Terminal and type or copy and paste:

If you are using Ubuntu 8.10 intrepid
sudo wget http://www.medibuntu.org/sources.list.d/intrepid.list -O /etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list

If you are using Ubuntu 8.04 hardy
sudo wget http://www.medibuntu.org/sources.list.d/hardy.list -O /etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list

-- give your user password when requested, you don't see nothing when you type it, then press enter

Then type or copy and paste:

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install medibuntu-keyring && sudo apt-get update

You may be asked to accept this package even though it cannot be authenticated. This is normal; typing "Yes" means you trust Medibuntu.

Then type:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
sudo apt-get install skype googleearth

To install Skype on a Ubuntu 64bit please take a look at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/skype_amd64

Or better try this: http://www.skype.com/go/getskype-linux-ubuntu-amd64

If this solves you problem, please mark as Solved. If not, please clarify your question.

Hope this helps

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Frank (fnb123456789) said : 		#6

Thanks Gord Allott, that solved my question.