Maybe others are willing to test on other ubuntu 16.04 flavors what I came up with to make GE run on ubuntu 16.04 64 beta2:
cd ~/Downloads wget http://launchpadlibrarian.net/176607818/lsb-security_4.1+Debian11ubuntu8_amd64.deb wget http://launchpadlibrarian.net/176607810/lsb-core_4.1+Debian11ubuntu8_amd64.deb wget https://dl.google.com/dl/earth/client/current/google-earth-stable_current_amd64.deb sudo dpkg -i lsb-security_4.1+Debian11ubuntu8_amd64.deb sudo dpkg -i lsb-core_4.1+Debian11ubuntu8_amd64.deb sudo apt install -f sudo dpkg -i google-earth-stable_current_amd64.deb sudo apt-get install libfreeimage3 libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-0 # credit to mr. amirpli from Google Products forum from here on (otherwise GE crashes and/or doesn't display the panoramio pics) cd /opt/google/earth/free sudo wget https://googledrive.com/host/0B2F__nkihfiNalQzN0ZmcjBPTGs/ge7.1.1.1580-0.x86_64-new-qt-libs-debian7-ubuntu12.tar.xz sudo tar xvf ge7.1.1.1580-0.x86_64-new-qt-libs-debian7-ubuntu12.tar.xz google-earth -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1562948 Title: google-earth not working - broken package with Xenial Xerus To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/googleearth-package/+bug/1562948/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
