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Google Earth for Linux (beta) Released!

earth.google.com — Title says it all. Direct Download link: http://dl.google.com/earth/GE4/GoogleEarthLinux.bin

Who dugg this? Made popular Jun 12, 2006

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  • hugotheschmugo, on 10/12/2007, -8/+45Cool, lotusleaf. But you people really gotta stop saying "Title says it all". Please? :-P

    (Read this fast now, it's gonna get modded down in like two minutes)
  • jaderobbins, on 10/12/2007, -0/+33while i don't agree with stereotypes, since you are using them i'm to assume you are a punk kid using windows that is too ignorant to use another operating system and tries to make it sound like he makes out with all the girls when actually you just make out with all the fat ones.
  • mooninite, on 10/12/2007, -0/+32The client is also a native client! It's not using Wine.

    It runs great!
  • CursedMonkey, on 10/12/2007, -1/+26I don't trust people whose names are in the form of **AA.
  • anasazi, on 10/12/2007, -2/+18works flawlessly on ubuntu 6.06
  • felderado, on 10/12/2007, -0/+16Ryan Gordon of Icculus.org brought you this port ENTIRELY.

    He's the guy that brought you America's Army for Mac and Linux along with UT2004 and lots of other games and dedi servers.

    www.icculus.org
  • mooninite, on 10/12/2007, -0/+14Wow you arn't kidding. It comes with a nice installer. I only wish it was in RPM. Hopefully they'll update the site.

    Way to go Google!
  • timf, on 10/12/2007, -0/+14Somehow it's funny.

    They do a port of Picasa with Wine which is somehow only a little more than a hack, but they provide proper packages for it (deb and rpm).

    Now they do a Qt port of Google Earth and instead of packages they provide a setup program that uses GTK2.

    Apart from this inconsistency...

    ... Way to go Google!
  • inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13Works excellent in Ubuntu 6.06.

    For those newer to Ubuntu. When you download the .bin file, right click on the file and go to the permissions tab. In the owner row, check execute. Close the dialog. Now double click the .bin file and installation will begin. Follow the prompts.

    Once its finished installing, it will put an icon in 'Applications' - 'Internet' - 'Google Earth'

    Pretty easy.
  • pkulak, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14You would think that Google would be all over making their software run on non-Microsoft machines. I don't know why this took so long.
  • drowe, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14(If they're girls at all....) *yikes*
  • OneAndOnlySnob, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13(Heart) Google.

    They are submitting so many patches (hundreds) to Wine in the process of porting their programs, so they are really helping Linux.

    EDIT: I now see that this is native. I'm impressed.
  • jaadfoo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12Wow, it runs great on FC5. Go Google!
  • inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+14While the link in my submission leads to the Linux download page of Google Earth beta version 4, the download page where you may choose Mac or Linux version is here:
    http://earth.google.com/download-earth.html
  • the7dwarfs, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13Runs great on ubuntu (dapper).
  • jrepin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11Yup it is native. Using Trolltech Qt. Too bad there is no better integration with KDE desktop and no 64-bit binary for AMD64. Other than that it works great. Thank you Google.
  • jaderobbins, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11doesn't need root. To see the shortcut run 'killall gnome-panel' in a terminal and you will see it in the Internet folder.
  • apotropaic, on 10/12/2007, -2/+12Thats because Mandrake 10.0 has issues! Try Mandriva 2006 or anohter distro
  • jaadfoo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10And it's official:

    http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/06/happy-birthday-google-earth.html

    There is some other pretty kickass stuff on there too.
  • lampshade, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9Ubuntu Dapper Drake install goes fine. Doesn't create a menu item or shortcut like it said it would, though. Maybe I have to restart Gnome?

    Anyway to install all I did was
    download it
    chmod u+x
    sudo ./GoogleEarthLinux.bin

    that was it

    ( I'm not sure if it needs root or not. I figured it did so I just installed with sudo first try and it worked anyway)
  • mark1372, on 10/12/2007, -11/+20Nobody cares if you or someone else gets the same article on the front page except for you and maybe your mother. Spend some time on a good description and people might Digg it because of that; don't submit crap descriptions out of some vain, meaningless attempt to get your headline on the front page.
  • bigtomrodney, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Or just type -
    sudo sh ./GoogleEarthwhatever.bin

    No need to change the permissions.
  • rajivvyas, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9Works on Dapper very well. This thing really Rocks.
  • jellygraph, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8I use Linux, so clearly you are wrong ;)
  • Deusiah, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8What are you talking about, my parents don't even have a basement!
  • bigtomrodney, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Rocks on using Suse 10.1 and XGL/Compiz, no problems. To install this in Suse, either open a terminal and run sudo sh ~/Desktop/GoogleEarthWhatever.bin or change the permissions to executable and double click on it. First method recommended.
  • OneAndOnlySnob, on 10/12/2007, -3/+10How is that bigger news? Everyone knew that would be coming along eventually. Google blessing us Linux users with its software is unexpected and ... Thrilling? Validating?
  • inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+10With a name like GNAA, baby Jesus demands an auto-block.
  • mailman-zero, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7I've been waiting for this for a long time. Slackware 10-current works great!
  • dr234, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6SICK. this is excellent. the new version looks nicer too
  • aptget, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Screenshot of Google Earth on Ubuntu 6.06 Dapper for those interested:

    http://img231.imageshack.us/img231/7173/screenshot2gz.png
  • drizek, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Its probably using QT4. Either that or it is just usin plain QT3 without kdelibs.
  • Iceduck, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Then I suppose that you don't trust all the electronics you own that are produced in China? What is this, the 50's?
  • Tarmolade, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Works great with PCLinuxOS!
  • arpad, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6I'll second that. Came up no problem on Mandriva 2006 for me.
  • greyspace, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5I'm impressed. It's running surprisingly well on my Mandrake 9.2 (kernel 2.4) system, with 256MB of RAM, a 533 Mhz processor, and six-or-seven-year-old integrated graphics. It's a little jerky, but it works! Try that on a Windows XP machine with the same specs and see how happy you are with it. :)
  • wzzrd, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5No offense, but I'm really happy it's not an rpm.
  • drizek, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5open a terminal, go to the folder you downloaded it in and do

    sh Googblablablalb.bin
  • CptnObvious, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7Yeah although it uses Qt it doesn't seem to use my Qt/KDE style :'(
    It is also having issues drawing the images, could this be because I am using Xorg 7 or on AMD64? I have the nVidia binary drivers installed.
  • Deusiah, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5I'm using Dapper and XGL/Compiz, works fine for me.
  • LanEvo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6nor do you need to give it executable. just "sh ./GoogleEarthLinux.bin" . of course either way will work.
  • Deusiah, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6To bad it looks ugly on Gnome too :(
  • macewan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5just installed it on Ubuntu also - runs without problem
  • wardriver20, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5It's allways good to hear that there's progress on the "Linux side of OS world".
  • lpcustom, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5I use linux and I'm married. I have sex and Linux all the time. You are unable to learn something new there for it's below you.....you think. Keep pirating your beloved OS till you can't anymore and you have to break down and learn something thats free and just as good. Then when you and the millions of other dumbasses have to make the switch...I'll be here to help you along passing judgement no more. You can flame all you want....which you have very nicely....you're still a dumbass
  • dizzyd_23, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7Google Earth has now been released for systems running linux and OS X (universal). Also, it has been realesed with the following new languages: French, Italian, German and Spanish. Feel that Google Love.

    Writing a real description isn't all that hard now is it?
  • M4v3R, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4sh ./Google[Tab]

    will do, no need for sudo.
  • lpcustom, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4"
    "Everyone knew that would be coming along eventually."
    It's been common knowledge since the Picasa release that Earth for Linux was in the works."
    "

    It has actually been common knowledge since Google Earth came out.
    I'm glad they finally did it. I've been waiting on this since the beginning. Nice work Google.
  • willcode4beer, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Didn't both of these projects come from purchased companies?
    Maybe they had something better to work with (code wise) in this case.

    Writing portable code is pretty difficult to begin with. Making someone elses code portable is heroic.
  • Criterion, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Ooohhh.... (grabs recently downloaded Dapper cd to get newly aquired hard drive going...)

    I've been waiting for this :D.
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