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# Google Earth

From ArchWiki

From the project web page:

"Google Earth 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."

## Installation

Google Earth is not presently available in the Official Repositories, and will need to be installed from the AUR.

The latest version is called google-earth and the legacy one (intended for certain Intel users) google-earth6.

## Tips and tricks

### Excessive memory usage

The application's memory usage can be controlled either by limiting the maximum cache size in `Tools` -> `Options` -> `Cache` or by lowering the graphics settings in the `3D View` tab.

## Troubleshooting

Tip: The project has an official support forum for anything not covered here.

### Google Earth crashes at startup

#### 1) Startup tips are enabled

The startup tips can be very useful but also known to cause crashes on certain Intel cards. To disable them use `enableTips=false` in `~/.config/Google/GoogleEarthPlus.conf`:

    $ sed -i "s|enableTips=.*|enableTips=false|" ~/.config/Google/GoogleEarthPlus.conf

#### 2) No new line at the end of `~/.drirc`

To prevent a crash with -dri drivers you may need to add a new line to `~/.drirc` with:

    $ echo >> ~/.drirc

#### 3) fglrx/Catalyst

It seems that for fglrx/Catalyst users Google Earth is completely broken, with no known fix at this time. Use google-earth6 until a fix can be found.

### Earth shows nothing but yellow borders

Taken from the changelog of 7.0.3 this issue has improved to some extent but overall it's still there:

    Imagery now displays for Linux users running specific families of Intel GPUs.

The solution is to just stick with the legacy version called google-earth6.

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