Install Google Earth On Ubuntu Jaunty (9.04)

Google Earth gives you an annotated eagle's eye view of our planet. This is a free proprietary package (you must accept the license to use this package).

$ sudo apt-get install googleearth-package $ make-googleearth-package --force

Doubleclick on the resulting .deb file.
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To install the latest Linux binary, download and save the GoogleEarthLinux.bin package from Google Earth downloads. Then install:

$ chmod +x GoogleEarthLinux.bin $ ./GoogleEarthLinux.bin

Run:

Applications > Internet > Google Earth 3D planet viewer You should turn off the Google Earth > View > Atmosphere setting, or you might see clouds everywhere and the ground won't show up.

Troubleshooting

If Google Earth opens, shows the splash screen, and then crashes, you’re probably experiencing a common issue. Running ~/google-earth/googleearth in a terminal will show this error: ./googleearth-bin: relocation error: /usr/lib/i686/cmov/libssl.so.0.9.8: symbol BIO_test_flags, version OPENSSL_0.9.8 not defined in file libcrypto.so.0.9.8 with link time reference

To fix this, browse to the folder you installed Google Earth into. By default this will be google-earth in your home folder. Find the file libcrypto.so.0.9.8 and rename it to something else, like libcrypto.so.0.9.8.bak. Google Earth should now start correctly.

$ cd ~/google-earth $ sudo mv libcrypto.so.0.9.8 libcrypto.so.0.9.8.bak $ sudo ln -s /usr/lib/libcrypto.so.0.9.8 ~/google-earth/libcrypto.so.0.9.8

(Note: You can also specify /home/user/google-earth instead of ~/google-earth ).

For other issues, see the Ubuntu help pages on Google Earth.
Uninstall Google Earth

To uninstall run the uninstall shell script located in the /home/user/google-earth folder (or whichever folder you installed google-earth into) or you can use Application Computer Janitor. Go to System > Administration > Computer Janitor!

Happy Testing...!!!

Sources:
http://ubuntuguide.org/wiki/Ubuntu:Jaunty