Google Earth on Wine

Richard1098 · #1 16th April 2006, 10:25 PM

I have gotten Google Earth to run using the latest wine and winetools packages (this was very easy). However there is a lot of corruption of the interface; images display, move, zoom etc OK but the controls disappear unles the mouse cursor is directly on top of them.

Has anyone gotten around this?

elgreco · #2 15th May 2006, 10:20 PM

Hi Richard,
I was interested too in getting Google Earth working on Linux, so i googled a little bit and found this Link in gentoo-wiki. I don't know if it helps you, i haven't found the time to try it myself. But I hope I will have time this weekend.

Cheers
elgreco

Fedor · #3 1st October 2007, 04:13 PM

Hi,

as Google Earth Linux no longer runs on my Laptop (I know there is an open thread on this) I did try GE with Wine. What a mess! Only rubbish on the display. So I started the GE uninstall but this only re-installs GE.

How can I get rid of GE in Wine? Any idea?

By the way, other Windows software does fine with Wine.

Thanks, Fedor

nulli_secundus · #4 2nd October 2007, 12:16 AM

can you not just download the google earth bin from their website? always worked for me before....

robert2513 · #5 2nd October 2007, 12:53 AM

I am running Google Earth Linux 4.2 with no problems. I downloaded the .bin file from Google Earth's website.

To install, first make the .bin file executable

Code:

chmod +x /home/(username)/Desktop/GoogleEarthLinux.bin

Then run the file:

Code:

/home/(username)/Desktop/GoogleEarhLinux.bin

robert2513

Fedor · #6 2nd October 2007, 10:17 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by robert2513

I am running Google Earth Linux 4.2 with no problems. I downloaded the .bin file from Google Earth's website.

To install, first make the .bin file executable

Code:

chmod +x /home/(username)/Desktop/GoogleEarthLinux.bin

Then run the file:

Code:

/home/(username)/Desktop/GoogleEarhLinux.bin

robert2513

Yes, I know and I did and it did work for some time, but after an upgrade, don't know which one,
it stops at the splash screen and that it's. But that is not my problem and is discussed in
another thread. As I said, I'd therefor try the Wine version and can't remove it now.
My question is not how to install the Linux version but how to remove the Wine version.

Cheers, Fedor

robert2513 · #7 2nd October 2007, 02:10 PM

Oops, sorry about that, misread the threat.

Wine has an uninstaller utility that should do the trick. Open up a terminal:

Code:

uninstaller

If that doesn't work or the program is not listed, another option would be to remove the program's folder from /home/<username>/.wine/drive_c

robert2513

***Dangermouse*** · #8 2nd October 2007, 02:15 PM

Hello all, when i install googleearth i just do

Quote:

wget http://dl.google.com/earth/client/cu...EarthLinux.bin
sh GoogleEarthLinux.bin

you dont need to be in root or have wine etc, just opengl/direct rendering working

Fedor · #9 3rd October 2007, 05:39 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by robert2513

Oops, sorry about that, misread the threat.

Wine has an uninstaller utility that should do the trick. Open up a terminal:

Code:

uninstaller

If that doesn't work or the program is not listed, another option would be to remove the program's folder from /home/<username>/.wine/drive_c

robert2513

Sorry, I forgot to mention, I did try the uninstaller without sucess. It tells, it is removing the files
and then it happily says it is installing the new ones. Really funny. So I now did remove the folder.
Just for fun I thereafter did try the uninstaller and again it did install GE. No idea where it
gets the files from as I deleted the original download.

I think I have to dive deeper into wine. For now, thank you.

Cheers, Fedor