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Friday, October 17, 2014
google Earth for linux appears to be largely abandoned by google , unfortunately. The packages available for download cannot be installed on a modern amd64 Debian or Ubuntu system due to dependency issues. In fact, the adm64 version is a 32 bit build, too. The packages are really low quality, the dependencies are outdated, locales support is busted etc. So here are hacky instructions how to install nevertheless. But beware, these instructions are a really bad hack. These instructions are appropriate for version 7.1.2.2041-r0 . Do not use them for any other version. Things will have changed. Make sure your system has i386 architecture enabled. Follow the instructions in section "Configuring architectures" on the Debian MultiArch Wiki page to do so Install lsb-core , and try to install the i386 versions of these packages, too! Download the i386 version of the google Earth package Install the package by forcing dependencies , via sudo dpkg --force-depends -i google-earth-stable_current_i386.deb As of now, your package manager will complain, and suggest to remove the package again. To make it happy, we have to hack the installed packages list. This is ugly, and you should make a backup. You can totally bust your system this way... Fortunately, the change we're doing is rather simple. As admin, edit the file /var/lib/dpkg/status . Locate the section Package: google-earth-stable . In this section, delete the line starting with Depends: ...

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