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Google Earth For Linux

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Carlosinfl

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Google Earth has been released for us Linux geeks.

It works on many distros and strangely enough on Slack too. :p

Download the file from the site and follow these simple instructions.

1. download the file
2. cd to the download location
3. type in chmod +x GoogleEarthLinux.bin
4. su to root (or use sudo)
5. type in ./GoogleEarthLinux.bin
6. sit back and let it install, following any prompts on the gui installer
 
Downloading now. They have Picasa fo Linux too. :)
I wish google woud open up some on-line repositories to facilitate apt-get. It would be like the Linux equivalent of GooglePack.
 
Works quite nicely on FreeBSD as well. There's already a port for it (astro/google-earth).
 
Man - I tried to actually install this and followed these simple steps...Link

I recieved the following error...

Code: 
cwilliams:/home/cwilliams/Desktop# su cwilliams
cwilliams@cwilliams:~/Desktop$ ls -lh
total 17M
-rw-r--r-- 1 cwilliams cwilliams 4.0K 2006-04-21 22:02 gnome-terminal.desktop
-rw-r--r-- 1 cwilliams cwilliams  17M 2006-06-15 10:02 GoogleEarthLinux.bin
-rw------- 1 cwilliams cwilliams  194 2006-06-06 13:48 pback.desktop
cwilliams@cwilliams:~/Desktop$ [b]chmod +x GoogleEarthLinux.bin[/b]
cwilliams@cwilliams:~/Desktop$ ls -lh
total 17M
-rw-r--r-- 1 cwilliams cwilliams 4.0K 2006-04-21 22:02 gnome-terminal.desktop
-rwxr-xr-x 1 cwilliams cwilliams  17M 2006-06-15 10:02 [COLOR=Green]GoogleEarthLinux.bin[/COLOR]
-rw------- 1 cwilliams cwilliams  194 2006-06-06 13:48 pback.desktop
cwilliams@cwilliams:~/Desktop$ su
Password:
cwilliams:/home/cwilliams/Desktop# ./GoogleEarthLinux.bin
Verifying archive integrity... All good.
Uncompressing Google Earth for GNU/Linux 4.0.1563..................................................................
You don't see to be running an X server (no DISPLAY set).
Google Earth and its installer both require X11.
Aborting...

Any ideas? I tried as root per code above and also tried as my regular user and same problem. I am doing this from a terminal window in Gnome.
 
Got working on my IBM T40 but with no graphics acceleration it runs VERY SLOW. The Radeon 7500 doesn't work with the fglrx driver so I need to either use ati or radeon which are much slower.
 
Carloswill said:
Man - I tried to actually install this and followed these simple steps...Link

I recieved the following error...

Code: 
cwilliams:/home/cwilliams/Desktop# su cwilliams
cwilliams@cwilliams:~/Desktop$ ls -lh
total 17M
-rw-r--r-- 1 cwilliams cwilliams 4.0K 2006-04-21 22:02 gnome-terminal.desktop
-rw-r--r-- 1 cwilliams cwilliams  17M 2006-06-15 10:02 GoogleEarthLinux.bin
-rw------- 1 cwilliams cwilliams  194 2006-06-06 13:48 pback.desktop
cwilliams@cwilliams:~/Desktop$ [b]chmod +x GoogleEarthLinux.bin[/b]
cwilliams@cwilliams:~/Desktop$ ls -lh
total 17M
-rw-r--r-- 1 cwilliams cwilliams 4.0K 2006-04-21 22:02 gnome-terminal.desktop
-rwxr-xr-x 1 cwilliams cwilliams  17M 2006-06-15 10:02 [COLOR=Green]GoogleEarthLinux.bin[/COLOR]
-rw------- 1 cwilliams cwilliams  194 2006-06-06 13:48 pback.desktop
cwilliams@cwilliams:~/Desktop$ su
Password:
cwilliams:/home/cwilliams/Desktop# ./GoogleEarthLinux.bin
Verifying archive integrity... All good.
Uncompressing Google Earth for GNU/Linux 4.0.1563..................................................................
You don't see to be running an X server (no DISPLAY set).
Google Earth and its installer both require X11.
Aborting...

Any ideas? I tried as root per code above and also tried as my regular user and same problem. I am doing this from a terminal window in Gnome.
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Hmm... It worked for me, doing pretty much the same method.
It claims you aren/t running x-windows. You are in gnome terminal though... right?
 
Langford said:
Hmm... It worked for me, doing pretty much the same method.
It claims you aren/t running x-windows. You are in gnome terminal though... right?
Click to expand...

Yeah - I am in X-Windows/Gnome 2.14 just opening a gnome-terminal. I could understand this error if I "Ctrl+F1" and then ran the commands.
 
Carloswill said:
Yeah - I am in X-Windows/Gnome 2.14 just opening a gnome-terminal. I could understand this error if I "Ctrl+F1" and then ran the commands.
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I don't know, the issue is beyond my meager Linux experiences.
I'm on KDE, but I wouldn't think that would matter.
 
acascianelli said:
Try 'export DISPLAY=:0.0'
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Dude - I love you! That worked so far. I got a GUI installer window this time. It looks like that was the magic ticket... ;)

Can you explain how you came to that command?
 
Carloswill said:
Dude - I love you! That worked so far. I got a GUI installer window this time. It looks like that was the magic ticket... ;)

Can you explain how you came to that command?
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Your error said that you didn't have a DISPLAY variable set, so I open up a console on my system and did a 'env | grep DISPLAY'. I figured the same variable/setting would work for you.

That variable should be getting set automatically. What distrobution are you using?
 
ahh 6h after it was released it was in the portage tree

its pretty good as well
 
I was about to post it earlier but you beat me to it.

Works well on kubuntu 5.10
 
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