How To Install Google Earth in Two Steps on Fedora Linux

Everybody should have known by now that Google servers are powered by heavily modified Linux servers. One publicly available software made by this giant search engine is Google Earth.

Google Earth, using the advanced satellite imaging and photography geographical technology lets you view the entire earth in 3D view, and it has enough details that enables to actually zoom in and zoom out even from the top of your own house regardless of your internet speed and connection type, Google Earth does its job very well and for free. Google earth is on beta mode and also available in Pro edition, it is also available for many operating system platforms shown here, like Windows, Mac and Linux.

Google Earth Installation on Fedora

Google Earth can easily be installed on Fedora in two (2) easy steps without any needed dependencies.


Step One

Download Google Earth binary executable

# wget -c http://dl.google.com/earth/client/current/GoogleEarthLinux.bin

Step Two

Make the binary executable

# chmod 755 GoogleEarthLinux.bin

Execute Google Earth beta

# ./GoogleEarthLinux.bin

Launch Googl earth.

# /usr/local/bin/googleearth

Accept field values for their default Google Earth installation as shown below

Click Start to launch Google Earth

Launching Google Earth on first launch.

There are various ways on making use of this Google Earth technology. Project site engineers, surveyors and contractors can make use Google Earth on pinpointing details such as actual project location, coordinates, project environment and details. The approach is as simple as searching Google Earth maps and the detailed results are ahead of time compared to manually getting a snapshot of the project location.

Refugees with internet connection maximize the use of Google Earth technology on getting the exact map coordinates where they would be heading to cross their country neighborhoods.

Google Earth can even take you to amazing adventure and travel experience on gazing Seven Wonders of the World, unseen Earth mark points, kingdoms and tourist spots like Disney World, Holywood, Niagara Falls and more right from your desktop screen. All these convenience are available for free from Google Earth Beta.

More Google Earth info.