Google earth not opening

Support & Help Requests
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I downloaded
google earth and installed it through debi, it said all dependancies met but when I go to open it , it gets to where I have a half a world globe on my screen and I cannot do anything with it. Any suggestions would be appreciated .

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Yep. it’s not working at present in linux generally. The only solution, for the moment, is to remove then purge (including manually deleting the “.googleearth” folder in your “home” folder) and then doing the following:

  1. install standard Wine with “sudo apt-get install wine”

  2. download and install, via wine, version 7.1 of the Windows version of Google Earth

The Windows version can be downloaded from here:

https://dl.google.com/earth/client/GE7/release_7_1_8/googleearth-win-7.1.8.3036.exe

I can confirm the Wine/Windows version, above, works well. I currently have it installed.

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Hi: I just updated my system and installed google earth from the Boutique and it seems to work fine. Comes up as “Google Earth EC”. Have only tried on the building I’m in, but when I zoomed in, it was correct. Hopefully the latest google update fixed whatever it was, or maybe, thanks devs! On UM 16.04-3

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Thank you stevecook and jbc . I have done what Steve suggested and it is working very well in Wine . I have some trouble getting rid of all the Google earth bits and pieces . No matter what I try it keeps telling me that Google earth was not installed but I can still search and find leftovers from the original installation .

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The way I uninstalled the Linux version of Google Earth is as follows:

Go into the Software Boutique and uninstall Google Earth.

Go to a terminal and type:

sudo apt-get purge googleearth

Go to your home folder, press CTRL/h to reveal all hidden files and folders and delete the “.googleearth” folder.

Go back to a terminal and type:

sudo apt-get autoremove

Then, in a terminal, type:

sudo apt-get install wine

Then download the Windows Google Earth exe file I linked to and install it with Wine

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Or just use the Boutique, it works.

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It didn’t work for me Martin. It installed fine. But, when opened, the global view was about 2 inches square on the top left of the display. I went on the internet and this is a common problem in Linux, apparently. Maybe it’s my GPU (amd radeon r700) and so this problem is limited. But, nonetheless, it didn’t work for me. The Windows one, however, did.

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