Ubuntu Unleashed: Howto: Install New Google Earth 4.3 (Beta) In Ubuntu Linux The easy way!

Howto: Install New Google Earth 4.3 (Beta) In Ubuntu Linux The easy way!

Labels: Applications, Google Earth, Howto Posted by defcon on Friday, April 18, 2008 at 6:57 AM

A Brand new Google Earth 4.3 is in Town with Some Hot new features, check out this *HOT* Youtube video while easily installing this with my simple howto!

Easily Install Google Earth 4.3 by opening a terminal and issuing this one command
wget http://dl.google.com/earth/client/current/GoogleEarthLinux.bin ; chmod +x GoogleEarthLinux.bin ; sudo ./GoogleEarthLinux.bin
The above command will auto-install to /opt/google-earth and create a desktop icon for all users. Right after the install Click Start to startup Google Earth

Need a Userguide for all the features? Click here for that

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· 884 weeks ago

Thanks, this is pretty cool.

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defcon 52p · 884 weeks ago

np, been using google earth for a while now

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arty · 884 weeks ago

how do i uninstall? please.

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Flimsly gutz · 884 weeks ago

dosn't work

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Gary Pewitt · 883 weeks ago

Thank you. It worked. A couple of others I tried didn't.

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Ronald Chacón · 883 weeks ago

hi, i have just install it, but it does not work at all, what can i do?

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brian · 882 weeks ago

It loads but just flashes the earth that is all i get so it does not work

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Mark Preston · 882 weeks ago

Oooppss!! I loved the article and used your install method. Sadly, the icon didn't appear on the desktop, only a file icon which was had both the lock symbol and a box with an X in it. Calling GE thru that icon brought up the GE window, but then nothing else. No zooming, no searching, etc.

Please give me the uninstall method and I could try it again. Thanks.

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Robert · 882 weeks ago

I second that. How do you uninstall a program when it was installed using wget? It doesn't show up in the package manager, there's no 'unintall' command for wget like there is with Apt-get. There's also no Google Earth folder with an uninstall package.

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Peter · 882 weeks ago

Me too, the desktopicon doesn't work, it has some lock symbols on it. GE works only once during the start process when its first fired up. If I close it down and later start it from the menu or command line, I just get black space with stars, the earth is gone or destroyed, no zoom or nothing. I'm using Ubuntu 8.04, I have to keep re-installing GE with the above instructions everytime I need to use it.. Not sure why it doesn't work after its first run, but on the 1st run it looks and works great.

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n.m. · 882 weeks ago

Hi.

I also failed to second run.

EfChou's solution worked for me.

http://groups.google.com/group/earth-linux/browse...

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Peter · 882 weeks ago

AWESOME!!! Thanks heaps for that, works like a charm now :-)

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gio · 880 weeks ago

After all the fix to make it work fine you should do: sudo chmod 777 /opt/google-earth/googleearth-bin

or elseway you can get gearth no access to network authentication