GoogleEarth

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Google earth works with wine 0.9.x

WINE INSTALL

add following line to your /etc/apt/sources.list

and do a

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade

GOOGLE EARTH INSTALL

Installation

  • Install the Microsoft DCOM98 (Distributed Component Object Model (DCOM) for Windows 98). To achieve that, you have to set the default windows version to Windows98 through the winecfg utility. You can then download DCOM98 here like that :

and install it :

  • WINEDLLOVERRIDES="ole32=n" wine dcom98.exe

    • The next step is the installation of Google Earth. You first have to download it from the Google's servers http://earth.google.com/ and then launch the wine installation. To be able to do this, you have to set the default windows version to WindowsXP through the same winecfg utility. You can then launch the installation

    wine GoogleEarthSetup.exe

    • Finally you have to launch Google Earth with some WINEDLLOVERRIDES
    WINEDLLOVERRIDES="ole32,usp10,msvcrt=n" wine PATH_TO_GOOGLEEARTH/GoogleEarth.exe
    • You may also wish to make an alias for the above command, something like

    echo "alias gEarth='WINEDLLOVERRIDES=\"ole32,usp10,msvcrt=n\" wine PATH_TO_GOOGLEEARTH/GoogleEarth.exe'" >> ~/.bashrc

make sure you change the PATH_TO_GOOGLEEARTH, and launch with gEarth

  • Enjoy !!!

Problems / Issues

  • If Google Earth complains about the initialisation of msvcrt, download it from http://dll-files.com and copy it to the Google Earth directory (basicly ~/.wine/Program Files/Google/GoogleEarth)

  • If you have troubles with the Google Earth menus, you can hide them by hitting Ctrl+1 (remove bottom panel) and Ctrl+2 (remove left panel)

  • If you have troubles with fonts, I have no workaroud (if you have one, please post it) (Microsoft core fonts for the Web could be downloaded here : http://corefonts.sourceforge.net/ ) (City fonts seems to be displayed in wine-0.9.2)

  • If it complains about psapi.dll, download it and put it in .wine/drive_c/windows/system

External links

  • WineHQ website
  • WineHQ Application Database

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