If Google Earth opens, shows the splash screen, and then crashes, you’re probably experiencing a common issue. Running
~/google-earth/googleearth in a terminal will show this error:
./googleearth-bin: relocation error: /usr/lib/i686/cmov/libssl.so.0.9.8: symbol BIO_test_flags, version OPENSSL_0.9.8 not defined in file libcrypto.so.0.9.8 with link time reference To fix this, browse to the folder you installed Google Earth into. By default this will be
google-earth in your home folder. Find the file
libcrypto.so.0.9.8 and rename it to something else, like
libcrypto.so.0.9.8.bak. Google Earth should now start correctly.