I am using ubuntu 12.04 lts and i want to install google earth so I went onto it's official site and downloaded the 64bit.deb package. When i typed:
sudo apt-get install google-earth-stable
In the terminal, everything went alright and it opened too, but the fly-to feature wont work. So I asked it on askubuntu.com
and here is the link to it: How Do I Search In Google Earth?
I did what it said and it fixed it. but I cannot even open google earth after I shut it down. What can I do to make it work.
Best Answer
To be sincere I haven't used Google Earth for a while but after I repeat some steps that you've done I experienced some issues with version 6 too. I'm also running 12.04 and this what I did to fix this:
Remove everything that belongs to Google Earth currently installed, I advise you to use Synaptic open it and type
Google Earth
click on marked item area and from pop up menu choosecomplete removal
after it removed close Synaptic.Now open a terminal Ctrl+Alt+T and run:
(let it to remove listed packages)
Now go to your
/home
press Ctrl+H find folders.cache
and.config
search for Google Earth in them and delete everything, for now we're done.Go back to terminal and install
gdebi
:Ok, now download Google Earth 7
.deb
file, when download is done, type in terminal:hit Enter then type
y
and hit Enter again.or go manually to a downloaded file directory and on a file mouse right click and choose install with
gdebi
in opened window clickinstall package
and agree to whatever comes out. Done.When installation has been completed reboot the system, for some reasons I also experienced loading issues with Google Earth to start, so after a clean restart everything works perfectly fine, I closed it and opened it twice, it starts without problems and the search bar works too.
This workout works on 12.04 perfectly, so good luck!