# Google Earth

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 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.

### Crash on startup

Google Earth can crash on startup for numerous reasons. Here are some of the most common ones.

#### 1) Startup tips are enabled

The startup tips can be very useful but also known to cause crashes. To disable them, use:

    ~/.config/Google/GoogleEarthPlus.conf

    [General]
    enableTips=false

#### 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) Another crash happened while handling crash!

You may try removing the following:

    $ rm -f ~/.googleearth/Cache/cookies ~/.googleearth/instance-running-lock

### Panoramio photos not working

There has been numerous reports on this in the Google Earth forums with varying solutions.

If setting the `_attempt_fix` variable on top of the google-earth PKGBUILD does not help, a fallback to the legacy google-earth6 may be required.

### 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 use the legacy google-earth6.

Category:

- Internet applications