Thursday, October 20, 2016

Install Google earth in Archlinux

Google earth is popular application from google to see earth / maps. It available for most popular operating system include linux system. With Google Earth application, will allows you to travel the world through a virtual globe and view satellite imagery, maps, terrain, 3D buildings, and much more. With Google Earth's rich, geographical content, you are able to experience a more realistic view of the world. You can fly to your favorite place, search for businesses and even navigate through directions.

Official sites:
https://www.google.com/earth/

This apps is 32bit versions so if you running 64bit archlinux makesure you have enable the multilib.

Installation in archlinux (AUR):
$wget -c https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/snapshot/google-earth.tar.gz
$wget -c https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/snapshot/ld-lsb.tar.gz
$tar -xvzf google-earth.tar.gz
$tar -xvzf ld-lsb.tar.gz
$cd ld-lsb
$makepkg -s
$sudo pacman -U *.pkg.tar.xz
$cd ..
$cd google-earth
$makepkg -s
$sudo pacman -U *.pkg.tar.xz
When done, it's available on internet categories, or you can run "google-earth" from terminal.

Here's the user interface of google earth:
Install Google earth in Archlinux
Now you can explore any area in earth, you can also enable 3D buildings for better looking. :)

Install Google earth in Archlinux
Beside earth you can also see moon, mars, and sky.
Install Google earth in Archlinux
SKY

Install Google earth in Archlinux
MARS

Install Google earth in Archlinux
MOON
Okay that's it enjoy and explore the google earths.
^_^
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