Google Earth on Linux

by macewan on December 31, 2005

Ask Google for support of Google Earth for Linux

macewan@cornbread:~$ WINEDLLOVERRIDES="ole32,oleaut32,msvcrt,wininet,rpcrt4=n" wine ~/.wine/dosdevices/c:/Program*Files/Google/Google*Earth/GoogleEarth.exe

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da [k] spirit
05.29.06 at 1:26 pm

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1 makrohard 01.04.06 at 9:49 pm

Yes you did it! You have Google Earth running on your system using wine! Can you give a short ‘HOWTO’ for ‘not so experienced’ linux users? I would be very glad to be able to use Google Earth, too, but I will not install any M$OS…

2 Morten 01.10.06 at 4:09 am

Bugger - I cant get this thing running on my linux 64 bit system. I tried wine and crossover - but nothing works :-(

3 Jan Vachun 01.13.06 at 6:54 am

Which version ( date/size ) of GoogleEarth are you using? I’m unable to complete instalation under Ubuntu 5.10 - error message is “could not get IPSFactory buffer for interface”

4 macewan 01.13.06 at 9:29 pm

hey Jan - version was from dec*

5 spirit 01.17.06 at 8:27 am

does anybody have it running and is willing to drop a few notes on the software (versions) used?

6 Bruno 01.24.06 at 2:26 pm

Hi there. I installed using the instructions from http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Install_GoogleEarth_with_wine
but just one thing isn’t working: I cannot see the text of the coordinates on the “earth” window. I tried installing the corefonts package, copied them to .wine/drive_c/windows/fonts/, restarted xfs server but had no luck. Any hint would be greatelly appreciated.

7 zafar 01.27.06 at 6:47 am

hi all
Mr. Macewan claims that he has it running on a linux box? - so why is not given details of how its done?

z

hey zch,

I just installed Breezy from the shipped CD - after updating the packages I’ll install Google Earth on Ubuntu Breezy with complete instructions of my actions.

cheers,
macewan

so far:
sudo apt-get install libstdc++5
wget http://superb.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/adambots-live/libwine_0.0.20041019-1.3_i386.deb
wget http://superb.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/adambots-live/libwine-alsa_0.0.20041019-1.3_i386.deb
wget http://superb.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/adambots-live/wine-utils_0.0.20041019-1.3_i386.deb
sudo dpkg -i libwine_0.0.20041019-1.3_i386.deb
sudo dpkg -i wine_0.0.20041019-1.3_i386.deb
sudo dpkg -i libwine-alsa_0.0.20041019-1.3_i386.deb
sudo dpkg -i wine-utils_0.0.20041019-1.3_i386.deb
wget http://sidenet.ddo.jp/winetips/files/wine-config-sidenet-1.9.0.tgz
tar zxvf wine-config-sidenet-1.9.0.tgz
cd wine-config-sidenet
./setup
[enter]
[option 2]
wget http://download.microsoft.com/download/WindowsInstaller/Install/2.0/W9XMe/EN-US/InstMsiA.exe
wine InstMsiA.exe
Now head over to http://www.dll-files.com/dllindex/dll-files.shtml?psapi and download psapi
mv Desktop/psapi.zip .
unzip psapi.zip
mv PSAPI.DLL .wine/dosdevices/c:/windows/system32
** not sure if I mentioned grabbing dcom98 or not - make sure via winecfg that you’re still set to win 98**
WINEDLLOVERRIDES=”ole32,oleaut32,rpcrt4=n” wine DCOM98.EXE
** now set yourself to winxp**
wget http://download.microsoft.com/download/d/1/3/d13cd456-f0cf-4fb2-a17f-20afc79f8a51/DCOM98.EXE
wget http://dl.google.com/earth/GoogleEarth.exe

8 dd 02.05.06 at 6:10 am

I think he just manipulated the screenshot! If I would thank you if you would help me to install google earth on SUSE 10.0 with KDE!

PS: I think cedega should be published under a free lizense, that everyone may play and use google earth under linux.

Google- best websearch
Google earth- good programm that doesn´t work under linux.

9 macewan 02.05.06 at 6:56 am

have you seen those videos of opensuse?? unreal!
http://cto.secs.oakland.edu/~castro/NLD10video/

uto, no?

as for the screenshot being manipulated, I’m more insulted that you would think I do such a sloppy job faking the shot ;-) It’s a real shot.

10 Pankaj R 02.07.06 at 2:41 am

how can i get Wine to enjoy google earth on linux

11 Hector 02.13.06 at 10:56 am

How can I get Wine to run Google earth on Linux?

12 Neil 03.01.06 at 4:32 pm

For all those wondering how to get Google Earth running, heres how to do it….

1. Switch to Gentoo ;-)

2. Read the following article

http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Install_GoogleEarth_with_wine

HTH’s

Neil

13 CarlozZ 06.07.06 at 7:57 am

Works well in breezy, only problem with the fonts but it seems that nobody could fix that.

14 xfceslacker 06.12.06 at 3:12 pm

Google now has a Linux version of Google Earth.

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