HowTo install Google Earth on Debian

The Google Earth .deb still depends on ia32-libs, but ia32-libs has been removed

The Google Earth .DEB still depends on ia32-libs, but ia32-libs has been removed as part of the transition to multiarch, so it won't install.

Steps

1. Download the 64-bit google earth .deb file from http://www.google.com/earth
2. mkdir earth
3. dpkg-deb -R google-earth*.deb earth
4. edit the file earth/DEBIAN/control and replace the Depends line as shown below
5. dpkg-deb -b earth earth.deb
6. dpkg -i earth.deb
7. apt-get install -f

Replace

Depends: lsb-core (>= 3.2), ia32-libs  

with

Depends: lsb-core (>= 3.2),lib32z1, lib32ncurses5, lib32bz2-1.0

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First Created: 2013-12-29T19:50:00Z
Last Modified: 2026-04-05 19:35