Here’s the main part, you may meet the problem when install google-earth using dpkg:
Run the program from the terminal, I do not trust:
samuel@R580:~$ google-earth
/usr/lib/googleearth/googleearth-bin: error while loading shared libraries: libGL.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
You’re hesitating, right? More problems? … … … Well, I save so many hours of search and tell you the solution to this problem, the end is not bad. It turns out that Google Earth is silly (I think that was clear, seeing the above errors) and search a library that we secure the system, but looks where he gives the real win. What we do is put the library in front of the eyes, so that you can not complain:
cd /usr/lib/
sudo wget http://librarian.launchpad.net/7037027/libGL.so.1 -O libGL.so.1
With this and a biscuit, we’re supposed to have Google Earth installed only. Now you can cleanse the sweat of the brow
Computer Science 101 