Saturday, June 25, 2011

GoogleEarth installation on Ubuntu 11.04

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The GoogleEarth installation on Ubuntu has changed since I last installed it. This time, the installation went this way:

(1) From the GoogleEarth download site at http://www.google.com/earth/download/ge/agree.html download "64 bit .deb (For Debian/Ubuntu)".
(2) In a Terminal window, install the Microsoft TrueType basic font set:
sudo apt-get install ttf-mscorefonts-installer

(3) In a Terminal window, install prerequisite packages to support GoogleEarth:
sudo apt-get install lsb-core
If Ubuntu complains about missing prerequisites for lsb-core, run:
sudo apt-get -f install

(4) In a terminal window, install the .deb package downloaded from the GoogleEarth site:
sudo dpkg -i google-blah-blah.deb

(5) Log out and back in again so that the fonts will be available to Google

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