This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://linuxconfig.org/how-to-install-google-earth-on-ubuntu-20-04-focal-fossa-linux
hello, i followed the steps but now i’m in trouble to uninstall google earth. Could you help me? thanks
Hi baghela,
If you want to uninstall Google Earth Pro on Ubuntu, type in this command:
sudo apt -y remove google-earth-pro-stable && sudo apt autopurge
Completed steps 1 & 2
Cant find Google earth in actives, applications & google-earth-pro returns “command not found”
Any assist appreciated
dbt1957
Hi Dbt1957,
Welcome to our forums.
Does a query to your package database list the package installed? Something like:
$ dpkg -l | grep google
This should show the package installed in step 2, if the installation was successful.
Appears the install didn’t make it
dpkg -l | grep google returned nothing however running locate google earth.deb returned /home/ddt/google-earth.deb (and a good number of associated files)
Not sure what to do at this point
Many thanks for the assist
With regards
I think you should try again the installation step of the .deb
package. Save any output provided by dpkg
, and share it with us.
OK…
RAN… sudo dpkg -i ~/google-earth.deb
RETURNED…
dpkg-deb: error: ‘/home/ddt/google-earth.deb’ is not a Debian format archive
dpkg: error processing archive /home/ddt/google-earth.deb (–install):
dpkg-deb --control subprocess returned error exit status 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
/home/ddt/google-earth.deb
Regards
dbt1957
This suggests the problem might be with the downloaded package itself. What does the file
utility say about the package?
It should print something like this:
$ file ~/google-earth.deb
/home/sandmann/google-earth.deb: Debian binary package (format 2.0)
Nautilus reflects 0 bytes in the google-earth.deb file & $ /home/ddt/google-earth.deb: reflects empty
Not sure what happened but looks like download and install again …
Maybe delete the current (empty) google-earth.deb folder prior to avoid more issues ?
Regards
dbt1957
reinstall worked fine
Many thanks for the assist
With regards
dbt1957