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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Ubuntu 10.04 upgrade on Toshiba Satellite: TrueType fonts & VSM font

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To install some favorite TrueType fonts, I installed the basic TT font package:

sudo apt-get install msttcorefonts

To install the very handy Value Stream Mapping font from Ambor, I followed the procedure documented in this blog entry.

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