google-earth not working - broken package with Xenial Xerus

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Also affects me

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

Hello Cip Man,
your version works fine for me (Xubuntu) - and I won't expect it could be dependant on flavor.
As usual, the workaround for search for special keyboard layout is necessary:
sudo vi /opt/google/earth/free/googleearth # -> adding before `exec ...'-line:
  export LC_ALL=de_DE.ISO-8859-15
for German keyboard layout - otherwise any address leads to Africa.
Thanks for your help,
JMB

Or you can just put a en_US locale regardless of your actual locale setting, the only ill effect [I think] being GE shows the USA map when it starts - but I believe everyone sets a 'my start location', so not a problem.

Here's a one line command for this 'all searches end up in Africa' workaround:

sudo sed -i '/exec/ i export LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8' /opt/google/earth/free/googleearth

Thanks

The same problem I have when try to Install Epson printer L220, the driver depends of lsb package, in Kubuntu 16.04 I try the workaround: install lsb-secruity then lsb-core from but get many deps errors:
es paquets suivants contiennent des dépendances non satisfaites :
 lsb-core : Dépend: at
            Dépend: m4
            Dépend: mailutils mais ne sera pas installé ou
                     mailx
            Dépend: ncurses-term mais ne sera pas installé
            Dépend: pax
            Dépend: alien (>= 8.36) mais ne sera pas installé
E: Dépendances non satisfaites.

How can fix it ?

That's what 'sudo apt install -f' does - installs all the missing dependencies in your list after installing lsb-core.

@ Cip Man

Your installation instruction worked for me on Ubuntu 16.04, thank you. Your solution for the Africa problem worked for a couple of searches, but now every search takes me to Africa again. Giving the sed command again doesn't help. Quickly looking everything else seems to work fine. Any ideas? Running Google Earth from the terminal gives the following error messages:

[0422/211755:ERROR:net_util.cc(2195)] Not implemented reached in bool net::HaveOnlyLoopbackAddresses()
[0422/211755:ERROR:x509_certificate_nss.cc(730)] CERT_PKIXVerifyCert for www.google.com failed err=-8181
[0422/211755:ERROR:x509_certificate_nss.cc(730)] CERT_PKIXVerifyCert for kh.google.com failed err=-8181
[0422/211755:ERROR:nss_ocsp.cc(581)] No URLRequestContext for OCSP handler.
[0422/211755:ERROR:nss_ocsp.cc(581)] No URLRequestContext for OCSP handler.
[0422/211755:ERROR:nss_ocsp.cc(581)] No URLRequestContext for OCSP handler.

(The list goes on like this)

Tis means you need to go and visit that place in Africa ASAP :)
Try what JMB suggested in post #4:
- edit /opt/google/earth/free/googleearth with sudo
- make sure there is only one "export LC_ALL= ...." line
- make that line pointing to your specific ISO locale; for DE take JMP's example in post #4, or for finish put fi_FI ISO-8859-1 etc.

P.S. ... fi_FI.ISO-8859-1 - *with a dot* before ISO

@ Cip Man
Thanks very much for your solution to this (and to Mr. Amirpli). It seems to work fine in 16.04

Hello

I not quite sure if my problem really is a follow-up after installing googleearth.

I followed a posting on the ubuntu-mate forums (https://ubuntu-mate.community/t/how-to-install-google-earth-on-ubuntu-16-04/5268)
and installed the packages
https://pkgs.org/ubuntu-15.10/ubuntu-main-i386/lsb-invalid-mta_4.1+Debian11ubuntu8_all.deb.html
https://pkgs.org/ubuntu-15.10/ubuntu-main-amd64/lsb-security_4.1+Debian11ubuntu8_amd64.deb.html
https://pkgs.org/ubuntu-15.10/ubuntu-main-amd64/lsb-core_4.1+Debian11ubuntu8_amd64.deb.html

Now I'm unable to login. It just gives me a /o/oauth/GetOAuthToken error.

Any ideas?