i would like i become to a member of your programms about the earth thanks alot

Thanks a lot for clear instructions. Its for the first time I have installed from non DEB images of the file. Great work indeed !!

The below worked for me on 2009-10-23:

apt-get install googleearth-package ia32-libs ia32-libs-gtk lib32-nss-mdns
make-google-earth-package –force # beacsue it doens’t recognize this version of GE
dpkg -i googleearth_5.1.3509.4636+0.5.6-1_amd64.deb

The extra packages solved some dependency and library problems.

I,want more infor mation from google Earth

I renamed also libssl.so.0.9.8

Works for Google Earth 5. Just needed to install some missing libraries. Download the GE5 installer and execute “make-googleearth-package –force” in the same directory.

Don’t forget to rename/delete the /usr/lib/googleearth/libcrypto.so.0.9.8 file (know issue)

Marlos how did you install Google Earth 5 so easily? I have ia32-libs and no luck. I also tried running getlibs for the googleearth binary and no luck. My xserver crashes every time i start the program.

Since 2 years have gone by since the last comment or update, I figured I might as well be a bit useful while waiting for the ia32-libs package to download.
The new version 5.0 of Google Earth, comes with amd64 support so no need to use force-architecture at Step 4,
just do dkpg -i googleearth_**CURRENT FILENAME VERSION**.deb
it requires ia32-libs package so you might want to get that in advance, I used Synaptic, feel free to use your favorite Debian package flavour in obtaining it.

[...] is an update to my post on May 2007 about installing Google Earth on Debian GNU/Linux. At present, it seems that Google Earth on Debian [...]

Tried in kubuntu gutsy, but no luck:

/usr/lib/googleearth/googleearth-bin: error while loading shared libraries: libXdamage.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Little hint there during the package build:
Depends: ttf-dejavu | ttf-bitstream-vera, ia32-libs

Confirming Ryan’s report with Etch on AMD64 X2. I guess a full set of 32bit libs is only available in Lenny? I’ve got the ia-32 packages installed.

Close but no cigar for me…

Package: googleearth
Version: -1
Section: non-free/science
Priority: optional
Maintainer:
Architecture: i386
Depends: ttf-dejavu | ttf-bitstream-vera, ia32-libs (>= 1.6), libc6-i386 (>= 2.3.5-1)
Description: Google Earth, a 3D map/planet viewer
Package built with googleearth-package.
dpkg-deb: parse error, in file `/etc/apt/googleearth-deb/DEBIAN/control’ near line 10 package `googleearth’:
empty value for version
Success!

and prior to that I got a whole heap of warnings along the line of:

dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: format of `NEEDED ./libIGUtils.so’ not recognized
dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: format of `NEEDED ./libIGMath.so’ not recognized
dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: format of `NEEDED ./libIGCore.so’ not recognized

Debian etch on AMD64 with kernel version 2.6.18-4-amd64.

Thanks for the howto anyway. Appreciate any ideas you might have.

Ryan

chris,
Hi, it’s a great pleasure to hear that :)

Mohd,
Thanks for the detailed instructions on how to get Google Earth installed on x86_64. I followed your instructions and it worked.
The only change I had to make was the dashes for the force switch: it needs 2, as in –force.
Chris W.