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Google Earth in Ubuntu 64 bit Architecture February 8, 2010

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ubuntu linux Google Earth in Ubuntu 64 bit ArchitectureIn fact Google Earth is only available for 32-bit architecture, called the i386 Debian. If your computer’s Core 2 Duo will be installed 64-bit Ubuntu called amd64. For this type, need additional treatment to be run.

First make sure that the architecture had been installed :

$ uname -a
Linux dns1 2.6.24-24-server #1 SMP Fri Jul 24 23:27:55 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux

i686 on the show this kind of 32 bits. Thus, after the download at the site, you can simply install Google Earth:

$ sh GoogleEarthLinux.bin

But if you get a message like this:

Linux compaq 2.6.31-17-generic #54-Ubuntu SMP Thu Dec 10 17:01:44 UTC 2009 x86_64 GNU/Linux

x86_64 show where 64 bit architecture, then began to follow the following steps.

$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install googleearth-package build-essential ia32-libs lib32nss-mdns
$ make-googleearth-package –email=jafar@esm2.web.id

Furthermore googleearth package creation process took place. When finished check file names:

$ ls -l *.deb
googleearth_5.1.3533.1731+0.5.6-1_amd64.deb

Then install as usual:

$ sudo dpkg -i googleearth_5.1.3533.1731+0.5.6-1_amd64.deb

Run:

$ googleearth

Or in KDE you can find in the K menu, Applications, Internet, Google Earth.

This method has been tested on Kubuntu 9.10 Karmic 64bit.

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