UPDATE - Of course google have now released a native google earth for linux. It works great. Forget the following exists.

The install works, and the application works well enough to browse the satellite data (overlays etc are broken, though). If you work out a fix for the remaining issues, let me know, and I’ll update this howto.

• winecfg
• Change to windows 98 (don’t worry, you can change versions whenever you like)
• wget http://download.microsoft.com/download/d/1/3/d13cd456-f0cf-4fb2-a17f-20afc79f8a51/DCOM98.EXE
• WINEDLLOVERRIDES=”ole32=n” wine DCOM98.EXE
• winecfg
• Change to windows XP
• Download psapi.dll from dll-files
• unzip psapi.zip
• mv PSAPI.DLL ~/.wine/drive_c/windows/system
• Download google earth from google
• WINEDLLOVERRIDES=”ole32,oleaut32,rpcrt4=n” wine GoogleEarth.exe

Now it’s installed. To run it, use:
WINEDLLOVERRIDES=”ole32,usp10,msvcrt=n” wine ~/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/Google/Google\ Earth/GoogleEarth.exe
(obviously, put that in a script or menu item so that you don’t need to keep copying & pasting).

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