I thought Google earth is only for Windows user, but I am wrong. We can also run Google earth in Linux. Just like my other article, Google earth installation in Ubuntu is quite simple. Same as Skype, Google earth also not included in any Ubuntu repository. We have to use medibuntu repository.

Installation

We have to  add medibuntu repository in order to have Google earth installed.
I am using Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy with amd64 machine. Other Ubuntu
distribution can use the list from here.

k4tz@k4tz-desktop:~$ sudo wget http://www.medibuntu.org/sources.list.d/gutsy.list -O /etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list

k4tz@k4tz-desktop:~$ sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install medibuntu-keyring && sudo apt-get update

k4tz@k4tz-desktop:~$ sudo wget -q http://packages.medibuntu.org/medibuntu-key.gpg -O- | sudo apt-key add - && sudo apt-get update

k4tz@k4tz-desktop:~$ sudo apt-get install googleearth

k4tz@k4tz-desktop:~$ googleearth

Or when Google earth installation finished, we can use menu :

Applications --- Internet --- Google Earth