Installing Google Earth

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Anybody knows if it's possible to install google earth on Linpus Acer Aspire One and how to do that?

thanks for attention

greetings
 
Well I haven't got a One yet.
But my guesses are that this will cause some problems.
First the graphic card might not cope with 3D that easily as with a Desktop.
Secondly as it is Fedora based, it might cause other problems and some tweaking to get it to work.

So it would be trial and error. A restore might be required and some Linux knowledge as well.
Well if you dare (at own riks) you could try using this instructions (after backing up your own files):

1) Download on the One with Firefox:
http://earth.google.com/download-earth.html

2)open terminal (alt-F2 xterm) (see other post on how to do this)

3)Use the following commands (bold):
su
Password:
cd Downloads (or cd /home/user/Downloads)
chmod a+x GoogleEarthLinux.bin
./GoogleEarthLinux.bin

4) Follow the instructions.

5) Alt-F2 and type googleearth

Or you can wait till someone will try this on a fresh system, where a restore is no problem.
 
Well .... good news for the patient once ;)

I have just installed version 4.3 and the first time it takes a little long to load but further it runs just fine (just be patient!! takes some minutes) 8-)
 
I'll have yet to confirm this for myself, but it could well be that you have to have compiz fusion running for google-earth to work....
 
I've installed this now and got it working, but realised I don't really have any use. How do I go about
Uninstalling it ?

Thanks,
Roy.
 
to install google earth, go to earth.google.com then download the linux binary by clicking the download link. next go to the folder that you saved it to and open a ternimal. Lastly type:

sh GoogleEarthLinux.bin

Then hit enter. This will start the insatller program for google earth. However once started it is extremely slow.
 
You uninstall it, by going into the install directory and there is a uninstall program in there. Open a terminal window in the directory and run the uninstaller and it cleans itself up.

Not worth having really as it runs so slowly.

Roy.
 
Sorry about bumping such an old post, but I installed Google Earth and after experiencing how poorly it runs I am trying to remove it, but when I run sh uninstall I get an error, Could not find a usable uninstall program. Aborting. Help me please, this program is less than useless on these systems.
 
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