Installing Google Earth in Ubuntu

What is Google Earth? It is a virtual globe that allows the user to travel anywhere in the world. You don't have to leave your home, you can do it sitting at your computer. You can view any place on the globe, even in 3D and even beyond the earth. You can explore the surface of the moon and Mars, as well as explore the stars in the night sky. Newbies often face difficulties in the process of installing Google Earth. It has not been officially included in the repository, and this is one of the major problems encountered during installation.

Installing Goolge Eath in Ubuntu

Linux distributions used to be available only to professionals. You almost always had to type in a bunch of commands to do the simplest things. But in recent years, thanks to contributions from people around the world, those days are gone. Now we can do just about anything with a graphical interface.

Let's install a program using the GUI.

First of all, make sure that your system is updated to the current state, to do this, run this command in the terminal:

$ sudo apt update

Next, go to the Google Earth download site and download the package for an operating system with a certain bitness - 32 or 64 bit.

Next you need to double-click on the downloaded package. The Ubuntu application center will open and you will have to click Install.

Once the installation is complete, you can launch the Google Earth program via the main menu or terminal:

Now we can see what the main program window looks like:

Let's also consider the installation method via terminal.

Here it is even easier than in the previous case. We just need to launch the terminal using the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+Alt+T and execute the commands listed below:

$ wget https://dl.google.com/dl/earth/client/current/google-earth-stable_current_amd64.deb
$ sudo dpkg -i google-earth-stable*.deb

That's all, Google Earth is installed on your Ubuntu 16.04 computer. You can launch the service in any convenient way and start traveling.