How to install Google Earth for Linux

78 Responses to “How to install Google Earth for Linux”

June 22nd, 2006 at 9:49 am #Ricky

Hey! Didn’t know how to do it, so THANKS for the howto!
June 23rd, 2006 at 10:54 am #Romeo

Yea same thing for me , i didn’t know how to install it !
THANKS!

I’m running ubuntu 6.06 !

THANKS AGAIN and Long Live For LINUX!
June 24th, 2006 at 11:56 pm #Silent Walker

Thanks for the howto. Really great product from google.Will try.
June 25th, 2006 at 8:33 pm #Kevin Anderson

Thanks heaps for that. Now all my problems are solved. Great product. I’m running FC5.
July 11th, 2006 at 5:07 am #Walt

Many thanks for the howto. It works fine with SuSE linux 9.3
July 14th, 2006 at 8:20 pm #Salvador Banuelos

Thanks for the great advice, it works perfect with Ubuntu 5.10
My Box:
Thinkpad T22 384 RAM
20 Gb HD
Pentium III 896 Mhz
July 20th, 2006 at 11:48 am #Riberto

Thanks a lot! Your instructions were right on the MONEY! This Linux Newbie was able to follow them and
install it on my laptop runing SUsE 10.1

THANKS A BUNCH!!!
July 29th, 2006 at 4:02 am #Michael

Thanks for that. It NEARLY worked, except that even logged on as su and doing ./GoogleEarthLinux.bin I get permission denied. What is the matter?
August 1st, 2006 at 9:47 pm #Jack

Woohoo! Works great, thanks a bunch!

Ubuntu 6.06

1.4 gHz

aprx. 300 mb. ram
August 3rd, 2006 at 5:19 am #Michael

Thank you all. OK, I have a desktop icon but when I open it I have a series of packages in michael/home etc but which one is the MAJOR one? I admit that I am an old fool, but this is frustrating. I must have tried everything but the right thing. Help appreciated. Sorry my friends. Mike.

Mike,

Don’t forget to do these:

macewan@cole:~$ chmod +x G*.bin
macewan@cole:~$ ./GoogleEarthLinux.bin
August 8th, 2006 at 10:38 am #Alex

This has helped me a lot, thank you!!!
August 15th, 2006 at 10:36 am #Erkki Kaila

Hi!

Excellent advice, excellent product!
UBUNTU, way to go!

EKa
August 16th, 2006 at 11:14 am #chosaq » 14 days of Ubuntu

[...] Google Earth instructions on this page. If it doesn’t work (it didn’t for me), install Aiglx+Compiz (see below) and try again. [...]
August 19th, 2006 at 9:06 am #Pepo

Thanks,

The “chmod +x” was the part I needed. After that is was just click, click, go.

Running OpenSUSE 10 on ASUS L3500H Notebook
August 19th, 2006 at 8:44 pm #Keith Rudder

Thanks!!
August 31st, 2006 at 11:36 am #Martin

Well,
As a beginner in Linux I feel really lucky about this article.
Thanks!
August 31st, 2006 at 6:29 pm #Fuji

i have problems during installation googleearth in linux…this is error report from my computer.

user@linux:~> chmod +x GoogleEarthLinux.bin
user@linux:~> ./GoogleEarthLinux.bin
Verifying archive integrity…Error in MD5 checksums: 5b4327f9ca55dab1b53ac9afa81391ae is different from dea81c5bb266fcfd920208ab0d8b727e
user@linux:~>

so..you can help me to avoid this problems ?
please expalin me in step by step
thx.

\Please send ur answer to my email adress in puji.adiatna@yahoo.co.id

[edit] Fuji, I just tested it again on a clean Ubuntu Dapper install and it works fine. Just follow the instructions again
September 1st, 2006 at 12:22 pm #Andrej Rados

Fantastically beatutiful way to install. Thank you!
September 3rd, 2006 at 6:39 pm #DD

Installed just peachy thanks to the great directions, but when I try to run it, I get:

Installing desktop menu entries…
Xlib: extension “XFree86-DRI” missing on display “:0.0″.

It then hangs forever attempting to start.

Anyone know what I can do about this missing extension?

FWIW, I’m running SLED 10 on a Thinkpad T42.
September 13th, 2006 at 12:00 pm #wombat

the only way to install. apt-get didn’t work. It tooks five minutes and googleearh was runing fine.
thanxs mate
September 23rd, 2006 at 2:48 pm #Fiapo

It worked perfect!!!
Thank you !
September 24th, 2006 at 12:19 pm #JuanCamilo

Thank a lot, worked perfect.
that’s what linux needs…win applicantions…
October 23rd, 2006 at 12:58 pm #Camdog

Same Here! Big thanks
October 29th, 2006 at 12:30 pm #kal

I can’t use that terminal app am new to Linux ubuntu 6.10…I have just used linux for less than a week and am struggling to get my feet wet…lol
November 4th, 2006 at 9:42 pm #Erik

What do you mean you can’t use the app?

In Ubuntu: Applications > Accessories > Terminal

Viola!
November 11th, 2006 at 8:44 am #Xrzyhoo

Not workin in Ubunto 6.10 I installed like you wrote but when I run application then I have screen Google Earth and initializing… and nothing… waiting and waiting and nothing ehhh Linux is better that Windows? I really doubt
November 14th, 2006 at 6:17 am #panos

i get this error

Uncompressing Google Earth for GNU/Linux 4.0.2414…………………………………………………………
setup.data/bin/Linux/x86/setup.gtk2: error while loading shared libraries: libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Xlib: connection to “:0.0″ refused by server
Xlib: No protocol specified

can someone help me ?
Please email me at sleepinsnack@yahoo.gr
November 23rd, 2006 at 9:47 pm #alki

It installs fine, but I can’t get it to run. The Google Earth splash comes up for a couple of seconds, then it disappears. The program never loads.
November 27th, 2006 at 1:40 am #vimi

am not able to install it,but i already have the firefox….a headache!!!!
November 28th, 2006 at 1:30 pm #Joe Rella

Michael Says:
July 29th, 2006 at 4:02 am
Thanks for that. It NEARLY worked, except that even logged on as su and doing ./GoogleEarthLinux.bin I get permission denied. What is the matter?

instead of just typing “./GoogleEarthLinux.bin” try typing “bash GoogleEarthLinux.bin” from the directory where the file is.

** did you first:

chmod +x G*.bin
December 2nd, 2006 at 9:45 pm #Fred Miranda

I’m trying to install it on Yellow Dog Linux. It downloads fine but it stops after the following:
Uncompressing Google Earth for GNU/Linux 4.0.2414…………………………………………………………
After that I get:
[root@localhost ~]#

What happened? Why doesn’t it complete the installation? Any tips appreciated. Do I need to install something else first?
Thanks!
December 3rd, 2006 at 2:24 am #Ronald

In reply to #26: check this (rather brilliant) post: http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/showthreaded.php/Cat/0/Number/683543/page//vc/1

Problem is that the Ati 2.28 & up drivers are incompatible with GE (v4). Either downgrade your ati-driver or copy an pre-2.28 libGL.so.1.2 to /usr/local/googleearth/libGL.so.1 (note the renaming!)
December 8th, 2006 at 7:10 am #Michael

Hi Rob, again. You seem to know what you’re doing. I’m new to Linux, and your tutorial about GoogleEarth worked perfectly. Ok, I’m trying to learn how to use console.On one hand, I can and have downloaded Scribus 1.2.5 tar bz2 and have had no luck getting it up and running. I don’t mind downloading it again, so, if you can, please post a console scenario where I can do it just like google-earth. I’ve had a go at it but don’t know where to put the dots, dashes and spaces enough to make it work. Merry Christmas, Michael!
December 25th, 2006 at 7:48 am #chandrakant

not special
January 2nd, 2007 at 3:01 pm #Alan Levin

Useful information, helped and worked! thanks to all involved…
January 19th, 2007 at 12:54 pm #Jason

Great! Right to the point! thanks for sharing.
January 23rd, 2007 at 2:22 am #Argiris Hatziemmanouil

Great! Thank you very much!
February 7th, 2007 at 9:50 am #despina

the howto-install-guidance very useful, it was installed alright on fedora core 6. When I run “googleearth” a window appears on the screen, saying the following
[...] You are currently running Google Earth in ‘OpenGL’ with software emulation. In this mode Google Earth will work but it will run very slowly. If you want to run Google Earth more quickly we suggest that you upgrade your graphics card driver. We only recommend this if you are comfortable doing software upgrades [...]
I intend to search about this, but I am kind of new on such things, so if anybody has a better and safer idea, i would be grateful if you let know.
February 11th, 2007 at 4:51 am #AlexAv

Really great hope theres more people like you for explain me another things about ubuntu
February 11th, 2007 at 3:07 pm #Shuggie

Oh so close yet so far. Ubuntu 6.10 Doesnt like it. Im running an acer aspire 5510. Like the other post above i get the splash screen and initializing but nothing further. Im a complete newbie to Linux so need spoon fed at this point.
February 16th, 2007 at 12:23 am #vivek

Great Thanks
February 16th, 2007 at 12:25 am #vivek

Great Information !!!!!!!!!
Thanks
February 16th, 2007 at 3:01 am #David Mackie

Many thanks. I had tried and failed to do this installation - but now it’s fine. Great stuff !
February 22nd, 2007 at 8:32 pm #jason

thanks
March 4th, 2007 at 10:44 pm #liberty

This website has a much easier install:
http://fosswire.com/2007/02/22/installing-google-earth-for-linux/
March 14th, 2007 at 7:06 am #Samuel213

I tried it on OpenSuse10.2 and it worked great….
One more good reason to keep on working with Linux for a almost-newbie like me.
(I had to do the steps on the shell as normal user, not as superuser)
Thanks a lot for that very useful help!!
March 17th, 2007 at 6:37 am #Michael

Recently I switched from Xandros 3.02 to Ubuntu 6.10. There were some difficulties at first with all sorts of stuff like Bluetooth and a lot of fiddling around.
Shuggie, I had early dramas with GE as well, even with Rob’s tuturial as you can tell by my previous posts. I actually DIDN’T KNOW(I’m getting on a bit) about copying and pasting into Terminal. So I typed my tits off making all sorts of errors!
Anyway, I’m using U6.10 on a Celeron 1.7 PC. This time, I just ran it copy/paste and it worked like a dream. Perfect install,GE icon on taskbar etc. Well, I had to do that bit …
I’ve noticed on UbuntuForums some issues with certain laptops with Edgy, which may or may not have something to do with the problem you have(had?) By the way, the GE I just downloaded and installed was 20-odd megs rather than 17+.It’s taken me some months to figure out how to do this stuff on Linux. Have fun, Shuggie. It will all work out in the end. Cheers, Mike.
May 28th, 2007 at 1:05 am #ras

It’s great!!!!!!!!!!!!!

thanks——–
July 20th, 2007 at 11:16 am #Seth

A noob might understand that stuff up there, but I’m only a beginner. I tried pasting lots of stuff up ther into terminal. I gpt nothing but error messages. Despite not knowing how to “do” the lines up there (whatever that means), I installed it like this:

1. right click on downloaded binary
2. select “properties”
3. select “permissions”
4. check “make executable” box
5. select “ok”
6. click on the now executable binary

Too bad all linux software isn’t this easy to install.
July 31st, 2007 at 5:08 am #roxy

i think the google earth is fantastic but very blur and there is no bukit batok in the picture.
August 31st, 2007 at 3:43 pm #Randy

I get the following error.
wget http://dl.google.com/earth/GE4/GoogleEarthLinux.bin
Opensuse 10.2
any ideas?
August 31st, 2007 at 3:54 pm #Randy

Opensuse 10.2
I get the following error.
Xlib: etension “XFree86-DRI” missing on display “:0.0″.
any ideas?
August 31st, 2007 at 4:00 pm #macewan

@Randy,

That is not an error and the link is still valid. Try it again.
August 31st, 2007 at 5:40 pm #Randy

macewan,
note: 52 is the issue.
51 was an accident.
September 2nd, 2007 at 7:31 am #sairin

although i installed it everytime i try to run it the pc logs me off from my linux account and when i log back in nothing happens..
September 27th, 2007 at 8:14 pm #cturk

It didn’t work for me!! I got this:

ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ wget http://dl.google.com/earth/GE4/GoogleEarthLinux.bin
–21:13:24– http://dl.google.com/earth/GE4/GoogleEarthLinux.bin
=> `GoogleEarthLinux.bin’
Resolving dl.google.com… 66.102.1.91
Connecting to dl.google.com|66.102.1.91|:80… connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response… 404 Not Found
21:13:24 ERROR 404: Not Found.

uh help?
October 14th, 2007 at 6:09 am #toedipper

Hi all,

As a work around to the 404 error just download the file manually from the Google site http://earth.google.com/tour/thanks-linux4.html and then open a terminal in the location you save it and start at step 2 above, the chmod step, and continue on from there.

The first step wget is just is just a download command but google have changed the location which is why there is a 404 error.

Worked for me.

toe

http://www.vistaisrubbish.com
November 30th, 2007 at 6:38 pm #Mario

thanks for posting the commands to install. I had a heck of a time running the .bin file after downloading from google
March 18th, 2008 at 3:50 pm #Nigel

Hi
I am trying to install Google Earth on Fedora 8 but when I compile I get the following Error:-
setup.data/bin/Linux/amd64/setup.gtk2: error while loading shared libraries: libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
setup.data/bin/Linux/amd64/setup.gtk: error while loading shared libraries: libXi.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
The setup program seems to have failed on amd64

Fatal error, installer failed to run at all!
I would be grateful for any help…Nigel
April 25th, 2008 at 2:49 pm #carux

Thanks, worked perfect
May 20th, 2008 at 6:48 am #Parshwa Murdia

I am not able to install the Google Earth for the Linux I am using in my machine. Pleae let me know what to do? Though it gets downloaded but is not getting installed. Is there any package which is not yet installed in my PC or anything new is to be done, please let me know regarding the same. I am using the Linux with the Fedora Core 5. And also if possible, please let me know how to upgrade from the internet and update for the latest things and the softwares. Not only this but I am also not able to use some of the common softwares, so please help rectify the same.
May 24th, 2008 at 3:30 pm #djole_nisam_ja

Great stuff.

Thanks man
May 28th, 2008 at 4:58 pm #Jorge

THANX MAN!! You saved me! =D, the only thing that you have to change now is the URL…

http://dl.google.com/earth/client/GE4/release_4_2/GoogleEarthLinux.bin
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July 5th, 2008 at 10:16 pm #agblat

Great install info, Google boots up and then a black screen with a few lines of text that flash too quickly to be captured followed by a login window. Running Ubuntu 8 on P-IV on ASUS MB.
August 7th, 2008 at 3:28 am #eight

after the whole uncompressing google earth for gnu/linux andthe ………………….. it went back to [eight@localhost ~]$ instead of installing whatever?
August 14th, 2008 at 4:56 pm #napster

Hi! I have a Acer Aspire One, and the GoogleEarth does not work, it starts but soon closing. Is this about the RAM?

I downloaded and used this guide…
It should work, but doesnt…

Stats…
Intel Atom 1,6 ghz
512mb RAM
8 gb flash drive

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August 21st, 2008 at 12:33 am #Yawar Hadi Noshahi

google isntalled correctly but when i run it its too slow….to move the worldmap.and point to the specified location .the message apper on terminal is
Installing mimetypes…
Installing desktop menu entries…
Installing desktop icon…
do_wait: drmWaitVBlank returned -1, IRQs don’t seem to be working correctly.
Try running with LIBGL_THROTTLE_REFRESH and LIBL_SYNC_REFRESH unset.

hope any body deal with it.
September 12th, 2008 at 3:06 pm #joselyn

this is awesome you can see many things that you dont no visit google earth
September 21st, 2008 at 1:48 pm #Mel

Newbie Linux user needs help please! Followed the steps, followed intructions on screen, got icon on desktop, promped to type in ‘google earth’ to run program, nothing happened……
September 21st, 2008 at 1:53 pm #Mel

Newbie needs help….. Can anyone tell me what to do now?

[mel@localhost ~]$ ./GoogleEarthLinux.bin
Verifying archive integrity… All good.
Uncompressing Google Earth for GNU/Linux 4.3.7284.3916……………………………………………………..
loki_setup: Suspect size value for option option

loki_setup: Suspect size value for option option

Installing mimetypes…
Installing desktop menu entries…
Installing desktop icon…
./googleearth-bin: error while loading shared libraries: ./libminizip.so: cannot restore segment prot after reloc: Permission denied
[mel@localhost ~]$
October 8th, 2008 at 12:12 am #Prozzaks

I installed Kubuntu 8.04 on my Aspire One AOA150-1493 (120 GB HD version). Then I tried Google Earth. It’s so slow it’s totally useless! It takes at least 1 minute before you get the main windows and expect to wait at least 5 minutes before the initial turn zoom animation.

I don’t understand why this is so slow. I would expect the Atom 1.6 GHz and the Intel 945GME to pack enough punch to run this, but it’s simply useless as it is.

I’d like to test the speed of Google Earth on the Aspire One running Windows XP, but I flushed it to install Linux and it would be way to painful to re-install it just for a test.

I’m now searching for good alternatives for Linux, but I think I’m pretty far from the kind of solution I’m looking for. Basically, what I want is an off-line (or with some kind of off-line cache) tool to see the topography, satellite imagery, street maps that also enable geo-referenced place marks, is able to calculate paths (directions from point A to point B), and can potentially handle a GPS.

Ideal Absolutes

How to install Google Earth for Linux

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