How-To: Install Google Earth on Linux
Surprisingly, installing Google Earth to your Linux Desktop is relatively easy to do (same instructions apply to Macs). And once installed… a lot fun to use – especially its newest feature, Google Sky, for space exploration.
Instructions:
- Download Google Earth from http://earth.google.com/download-earth.html (you’ll be downloading a package called GoogleEarthLinux.bin)
- Fire up your Terminal and cd (aka change directory) to your Desktop (or whichever folder you downloaded the package to)
- From the command line type: sh GoogleEarthLinux.bin
Once you’ve completed all three steps, Google Earth will automatically install itself into a folder in your user directory called google-earth, which you have the option to change (see instructions below), and will create shortcut links on your desktop and in your home folder to launch the application. In case you don’t find the program useful, you can uninstall it by double-clicking the uninstall file in the google-earth directory.
[Advanced] Instructions for All User Access:
The instructions are the same as above except you need to use sudo (or root). MORE »
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For fun he likes to stay active outdoors, take photographs, shoot video, hack together PHP/Python code, play with Linux, and test new technologies.
