How to install Google Earth on Ubuntu 20.04 Focal Fossa Linux - LinuxConfig.org

The objective is to install Google Earth on Ubuntu 20.04 Focal Fossa Linux.
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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

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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

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