How to Install Google Earth in Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty Narwhal)
This simple and brief tutorial shows you how to install and use Google Earth in Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal. If you’re currently using Google Earth in Windows or other systems and want to do the same in Ubuntu, then this tutorial will show you how to accomplish that. As with our previous tutorials, this one should be quick and easy and new users to Ubuntu will appreciate it.
Getting started:
To get started, go to Ubuntu Software Center from Ubuntu’s launcher.
Then search for and install googleearth-package
Also install lsb-core
After installing the two programs above, press Ctrl – Alt – T on your keyboard to open Terminal. When Terminal opens, type the command below to install Google Earth Package.
sudo make-googleearth-package --force
Wait for Google Earth Package to finish downloading. Then go to your Home Folder.
Double click googleearth_6.x.x.x.deb
Click Install
If Google Earth Package will not install via Ubuntu Software Center, open Terminal and run the command below:
sudo dpkg -i googleearth_6.x.x.deb
Enjoy!
If for some reasons the fonts are not showing ok, install this program and try again.
sudo apt-get install ttf-mscorefonts-installer
Unity icon for googleearth doesn’t appear, or should I say it isn’t standard.
Installs fine, and no issue with the icon in the Unity launcher. But the fonts are all screwed up. Almost unreadable. Others are reporting the same issue.
It’s GUI is all QT, so it won’t look quite right in your (and my, and most peoples’) GTK+ interface.
Install this and try again: sudo apt-get install ttf-mscorefonts-installer
I finally got Google Earth installed with a bunch of error reports in the command line Terminal and then tried this font fix, but it didn’t work. Fonts are still screwed up.
Awesome. Can I get rid of lsb-core now?
I really enjoy and am grateful for your helpful posts. My transition from Windows to Linux couldn’t be easier without sites like this. :)
worked like a charm
This is the message Ubuntu Software Center gave me after requesting for /home/bslayers/googleearth_6.0.3.2197+0.6.0-1_i386.deb to be installed.
The package is of bad quality
The installation of a package which violates the quality standards isn’t allowed. This could cause serious problems on your computer. Please contact the person or organisation who provided this package file and include the details beneath.
Lintian check results for /home/bslayers/googleearth_6.0.3.2197+0.6.0-1_i386.deb:
E: googleearth: maintainer-name-missing
E: googleearth: maintainer-address-malformed
What do I do with this?
Open terminal and run this command: sudo dpkg -i googleearth_6.0.3.2197+0.6.0-1_i386.deb
The dpkg command string given in the article does not work. It fails with the following messages:
sudo dpkg -i googleearth_6.0.1.2032+0.6.0-1_i386.deb
dpkg: error processing googleearth_6.0.1.2032+0.6.0-1_i386.deb (–install):
cannot access archive: No such file or directory
Errors were encountered while processing:
googleearth_6.0.1.2032+0.6.0-1_i386.deb
The second version of the dpkg command given in comments does work. Perhaps the article should include a correction?
More correctly, I suggest that the article should make mention of the fact that the version number of Google Earth .deb package resulting from the build must be entered as it appears in your home directory.
I realize now that you have indicated this with your reference to running the command: “sudo dpkg -i googleearth_6.x.x.deb” but since you give a specific version of the string right below that, this can be confusing, as it was for me.
After trying an install of Ubuntu 11.04, I find that coming from ANY windows environment to 1980′s style command line rubbish not only taxing, but absolutely counter intuitive. To satisfy the “geek” in you, bravo. I’ll reluctantly purchase a copy of windows 7.
Yours is a personal opinion, I daresay. I moved over to Linux (Ubuntu) about 5 years ago, and never looked back. Windows, in any flavour, is pale, bloated and overrated in comparison. Note that most web servers (and other servers) run on Linux — Windows servers are known to be troublesome.
I installed this way, the launched Google Earth from the applications menu. The splash screen came up, and nothing else. So I launched it from the command line, and got this:
Google Earth has caught signal 11.
We apologize for the inconvenience, but Google Earth has crashed.
This is a bug in the program, and should never happen under normal
circumstances. A bug report and debugging data have been written
to this text file:
~/.googleearth/crashlogs/crashlog-4de3986a.txt
Please include this file if you submit a bug report to Google.
$ cat ~/.googleearth/crashlogs/cr
crashlog-4de39847.txt crashlog-4de3986a.txt
mike:~/src/google 22 $ cat ~/.googleearth/crashlogs/crashlog-4de398
crashlog-4de39847.txt crashlog-4de3986a.txt
mike:~/src/google 22 $ cat ~/.googleearth/crashlogs/crashlog-4de3986a.txt
Major Version 6
Minor Version 0
Build Number 0003
Build Date May 17 2011
Build Time 00:40:40
OS Type 3
OS Major Version 2
OS Minor Version 6
OS Build Version 38
OS Patch Version 0
Crash Signal 11
Crash Time 1306761322
Up Time 0.576385
Muchas gracias, en realidad me sirvió de mucho!!
Thanks for the very useful tutorial — it worked for me. Well done!
It says that the package is in bad state
Installs with some errors, starts up in my fresh 11.04 and looks screwy..
tried font packs, no changes :(
looks like i have to use my win7 for gearth buuuhuuu
Installed and works perfectly on kubuntu 11.04. Thank you.
Using Oneiric 64-bit. Followed all instructions above and rebooted, but fonts are still tiny and illegible. Any suggestions?