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Google Earth on 64-bit Debian GNU/Linux

Tuesday, August 12th, 2008
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Today I finally decided that it’s about time to try to install Google Earth on my new computer, running an 64-bit version of Debian Testing. I’ve said before and I’ll say it again: “I love Debian!”

First I’ve done a Google search and found solution at SysAdmin’s Diary. Just for my own information I’ll list the steps here, for details take a look at SysAdmin’s Diary blog.

As simple as:

1. Install the googleearth-package

2. Run make-googleearth-package to build the googleearth Debian package

3. See the googleearth_4.3.7284.3916+0.5.4-1_amd64.deb !!! Now, install it.

4. Run googleearth, voila!

If Google Earth complains about error 29 you should also install the lib32nss-mdns package. It might also help to delete the ~/.googleearth folder.

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