Google earth on ubuntu

belladivediva · 04-26-2009, 12:45 PM

I had ubuntu 8.10 and upgraded last night to the newest version.

I just want to download Google Earth.

I've tried downloading the newest google earth and the 4.3 version and neighter work. It wont open and I don't know what to do.

It downloads as an icon with .bin as the ending. I try to open it and I get an error message saying it's an unknown file type.

repo · 04-26-2009, 12:48 PM

In a terminal, go to where you downloaded the file
then type

Code:

chmod +x foo.bin
./foo.bin

rjlee · 04-26-2009, 02:20 PM

belladivediva, you may want to take a look at Medibuntu, which is a collection of popular applications (including Google Earth) that aren't in the Ubuntu standard repositories.

By adding a repository containing Google Earth rather than downloading the binaries, you can keep Google Earth up to date along with the rest of your system, and you won't have to worry about setting file permissions and so on.

http://www.medibuntu.org/ (see the "Repository Howto" link)

belladivediva · 04-26-2009, 11:37 PM

I've downloaded the Medibuntu but i can't find Google earth on my computer..did I miss something?

repo · 04-27-2009, 05:23 AM

launch synaptic
and look for googleearth and install it

Code:

sudo synaptic

or run

Code:

sudo apt-get install googleearth

ronlau9 · 04-27-2009, 08:31 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by belladivediva

I've downloaded the Medibuntu but i can't find Google earth on my computer..did I miss something?

If you have not yet solved start the synaptic package manager and use
as search argument google it show every thing about google including
googleearth .
of course on the left side all packages

axelfc · 04-28-2009, 12:05 PM

Check this Ubuntu 9.04 Post Installation Guide. There are instructions on how to install Google Earth on Ubuntu.