Google Earth

[rogerduncan100]

Has anybody got Google Earth running in Kubuntu 10.10? It worked fine with Kubuntu 9.10 and it even works with Kubuntu 8.04, KDE 3.

I tried installing the Google Earth Debian Package builder from the Google repositories and I also tried installing from the Google website using the .bin file.

Any help would be much appreciated.



rogerduncan100

[Detonate]

Re: Google Earth

For some reason it has not made it into the medibuntu packages for Maverick yet. I installed it by activating the medibuntu lucid repository temporarily, and it seems to work fine. The easiest way to do this is add the following line to your /etc/apt/sources.list file, the run sudo apt-get update, then sudo apt-get install googleearth.

deb http://packages.medibuntu.org/ lucid free non-free

If you already have medibuntu installed, no need to get the GPG key if not run this;

udo wget --output-document=/etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list http://www.medibuntu.org/sources.list.d/$(lsb_release -cs).list && sudo apt-get --quiet update && sudo apt-get --yes --quiet --allow-unauthenticated install medibuntu-keyring && sudo apt-get --quiet update

[rogerduncan100]

Re: Google Earth

Thanks very much, it worked!

[tomcloyd]

Re: Google Earth

And I just replicated this solution. The DEB downloaded from Google wouldn't even launch, once installed. I uninstalled it via Synaptic, and installed the version available (via Synaptic) from the medibuntu lucid repository, and it works perfectly.

A new mystery every day...