Google Earth and Ubuntu

For those interested in running GE on Ubuntu, here are some pointers:
http://ubuntuguide.org/wiki/Ubuntu:Natty#Google_Earth

(Please note that I have no first-hand knowledge of this.)

 

sudo apt-get install lsb-core

 

On Scientific Linux 6.1 it works well, except for the Qt stuff which libraries seem to be ignored/not used or something else in GE 6 latest - hence the lousy fonts. Size can be increased by running as normal user qtconfig-qt4 but that's about it.
Remember that GE is only 32 bit - there is no 64 bit version ( 64 bit on their site uses 32bit libraries), so I had to install the nvidia 32 bit drivers in addition to the 64 bit drivers.
As linuxforall said make sure you have lsb.

Anyway here a sshot of Zürich area with latest GE6x ( I downloaded the '64' bit rpm from their site which also added the google-earth.repo file so that updates will be occur as and when available without the need for me to check the site).

 

I followed the instructions from https://help.ubuntu.com/community/GoogleEarth#Recommended_installation_methods

Install LSB-core and then download the deb file from google earth and install.

Cheers, Nick.