After downloading the Dev file from Google, I tried:
dpkg -i google-earth-stable_current_amd64.deb
but it complains that lsb-core is missing. So I need that package, "which is a virtual package and is not provided by any available package".
It looks like lsb-core has been removed from Debian Stretch.
Any hints?
Debian dropped LSB support, so lsb-core it's not in Debian >= Stretch anymore.
As correctly noted by @tknv, some months after this answer a new lsb-compat has been made available. So the best solution to the problem is to install it:
sudo apt install lsb-compat
To have it working you also could:
lsb-core dependencyld-lsb ELF linker (once provided by lsb-core)To do so you can:
Check the name of the ld-lsb ELF linker required (architecture dependent):
ldd /opt/google/earth/free/googleearth-bin |grep ld
Using the information gathered in 2, manually create the symlink. For 64-bit architecture the command is:
sudo ln -s /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 /lib64/ld-lsb-x86-64.so.3
For 32-bit architecture I guess the correct command would be:
sudo ln -s /lib/ld-linux-x86.so.2 /lib/ld-lsb-x86.so.3
It worked with my Debian Stretch. Try:
sudo apt-get install lsb-compat
Info about the lsb-compat package
This is also the fix when bypassing the installer and extracting the deb. Then the very misleading error is:
bash: ./googleearth-bin: No such file or directory
It is not the google earth binary which is missing, but the specified loader ld-lsb-x86.so.3
I am running Debian Stretch.
I downloaded google-earth-pro-stable_current_amd64.deb, and
I installed lsb-compat as described above, except sudo is not a command on my system. Instead I used the command su, and supplied the password.
su
apt-get install lsb-compat
cd Downloads
dpkg google-earth-pro_stable_current_amd64.deb
I can run it from a command line with the command google-earth-pro.
But the view occupies just a tiny upper left corner of the available screen space. It is not very usable at this point, but it is installed.
