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Howto: Google Earth
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Introduction
Google Earth puts a planet's worth of imagery and other geographic information right on your desktop. View exotic locales like Maui and Paris as well as points of interest such as local restaurants, hospitals, schools, and more.

Installation
Download
Download the linux version of Google Earth.

Make Executable
At the command line,cd into the directory that you saved Google Earth. Then issue the following command:
chmod +x GoogleEarthLinux.bin


Run the Installer
Issue the following command at the command prompt:
sudo ./GoogleEarthLinux.bin
Continue through the rest of the installation using the default options, unless you are more experienced and need to change the options.

WARNING: DO NOT choose to run Google Earth, as doing so will disallow you to run it as a normal user in the future.

Desktop Entry
To add Google Earth to the Desktop menu run this command in a terminal:
sudo cp /opt/google-earth/googleearth.desktop /usr/share/applications/


Troubleshooting
Google Earth for Linux is still in beta. As such, many problems that you may encounter can be attributed to this.

Permission Denied
Receiving this error means that you ignored the warning in the install instructions. To fix it, do the following:
 sudo chown -R username ~/.googleearth
 sudo chown username  ~/.local/share/applications/googleearth.desktop
Be sure to replace ''username'' with your user name.
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