October 1, 2019

Fedora -- installing google earth

I tried this years ago and gave up on it. It was unstable and then led to all kinds of package conflicts. But I tried it again, and it seems fine now. Here is what I did.

First I went to the download site (search for download google earth). I selected "download for desktop", it figured out I was running linux, and it gave me: 

google-earth-pro-stable-current.x86_64.rpm
This is about a 74M file. I install it via: 
su
dnf install google-earth-pro-stable-current.x86_64.rpm
I don't know if this is better than installing it via RPM or not, but that is what I did.

This leaves an executable in /bin/google-earth-pro and it seems to run just fine. This is actually a link to /opt/google/earth/pro/googleearth, which is neither here nor there to me as long as it works.

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