Comments on: How-to Install Google Earth in Ubuntu

By: pete

pete — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 18:34:14 +0000

download from google website
right click on file than,
install whith ubuntu software centre
in right upper corner click on install
root password
all done
enjoy

By: Matthew Myatt

Matthew Myatt — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 07:19:10 +0000

Help..

Unbuntu 10.10 32 bit, trying to install Google Earth.

I am new to Linux so go easy on me. I have download the bin file and followed the instructions and this is whats happens. It does the same if I run from Desktop using the sh command.

master@Lenovo-G550:~$ cd Downloads
master@Lenovo-G550:~/Downloads$ chmod +x GoogleEarthLinux.bin
master@Lenovo-G550:~/Downloads$ sudo ./GoogleEarthLinux.bin
[sudo] password for master:
Verifying archive integrity… All good.
Uncompressing Google Earth for GNU/Linux 6.0.1.2032…………………………………………………………………………………
setup.data/setup.xml:1: parser error : Document is empty

^
setup.data/setup.xml:1: parser error : Start tag expected, ‘<' not found

^
Couldn't load 'setup.data/setup.xml'
master@Lenovo-G550:~/Downloads$

Whats going on.??

By: kyy

kyy — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 01:33:37 +0000

root@kingyoo-Precision-M4400:/home/kingyoo/????# sudo ./GoogleEarthLinux.binVerifying archive integrity… All good.
Uncompressing Google Earth for GNU/Linux 5.2.1.1588……………………………………………………..
setup.data/setup.xml:1: parser error : Document is empty

^
setup.data/setup.xml:1: parser error : Start tag expected, ‘<' not found

^
Couldn't load 'setup.data/setup.xml'
root@kingyoo-Precision-M4400:/home/kingyoo/????# ^C

By: Jeff K

Jeff K — Sun, 17 Oct 2010 17:18:29 +0000

@Stan W: I’m getting the very same problem. Has anyone solved this?

By: Farhan

Farhan — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 18:09:47 +0000

Thanks man God Bless U

By: stan w

stan w — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 01:33:10 +0000

I have installed it 3 different ways, and,
I keep getting this:

ner@904ubuntu:~/Desktop$ chmod +x GoogleEarthLinux.bin
ner@904ubuntu:~/Desktop$ sudo ./GoogleEarthLinux.bin
[sudo] password for ner:
Verifying archive integrity… All good.
Uncompressing Google Earth for GNU/Linux 5.2.1.1329……………………………………………………..
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…
Fatal error in __driConfigOptions line 1, column 0: unknown encoding.
Google Earth has caught signal 6.

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:

/root/.googleearth/crashlogs/crashlog-4c69dcad.txt

the familiar splash screen of Google Earth comes on for a sec, then does a Jimmy Hoffa…

By: saba

saba — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 10:24:53 +0000

hi…
I am download googleearth.bin file. then i installed it.
then i get following bug…

/root/.googleearth/crashlogs/crashlog-4c4abce0.txt
Please include this file if you submit a bug report to Google.
help me….
thanks in advance…

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7 Must have Google Tools for Linux Users « Genothomas's Blog — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 13:18:30 +0000

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By: Dharamjeet

Dharamjeet — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 06:01:35 +0000

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By: edward

edward — Sun, 16 May 2010 03:34:17 +0000

thanks!