Package Details: google-earth-pro 7.3.7.1155-1

Git Clone URL: https://aur.archlinux.org/google-earth-pro.git (read-only, click to copy)
Package Base: google-earth-pro
Description: 3D interface to explore the globe, terrain, streets, buildings and other planets (Pro version)
Upstream URL: https://www.google.com/earth/
Licenses: LicenseRef-Google-custom
Provides: google-earth
Submitter: Det
Maintainer: iyanmv
Last Packager: iyanmv
Votes: 1089
Popularity: 2.44
First Submitted: 2017-01-23 16:08 (UTC)
Last Updated: 2026-04-08 16:29 (UTC)

Pinned Comments

Det commented on 2017-08-24 15:33 (UTC) (edited on 2017-12-05 16:17 (UTC) by Det)

✔ NOTE The "Free" Google Earth has been dropped: https://support.google.com/earth/answer/168344?hl=en

All future updates go to Google Earth Pro (also free): https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/google-earth-pro/

Latest Comments

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simona commented on 2026-04-08 22:02 (UTC)

solved reinstalling and changing icon launch parameters. tnx.

iyanmv commented on 2026-04-08 16:30 (UTC) (edited on 2026-04-08 16:31 (UTC) by iyanmv)

VStoiakin, cyqsimon: done, thanks for the heads up!

simona: read the post install message, and if that doesn't help provide more details.

simona commented on 2026-04-05 15:19 (UTC)

problem to start with kde6 and wayland....

cyqsimon commented on 2026-04-02 17:12 (UTC)

I mean, there's an argument to be made that having a dependency on libxml2-legacy is better compared to having a vendored libxml2.so, and therefore the vendored copy should be removed by the build script.

Just my two cents on this. It's up to the maintainers to decide.

VStoiakin commented on 2026-04-02 14:57 (UTC)

libxml2.so.2 is now included in the package, so dependency on libxml2-legacy can be dropped.

bmac8086 commented on 2025-10-30 13:34 (UTC) (edited on 2026-03-25 20:29 (UTC) by bmac8086)

When using network links that use WWW-Authenticate Basic, Google Earth prompts the user to "Remember this password in my keychain" but fails to do so. To the best of my knowledge I have duplicated my Arch install to mirror several (working) Debian based systems, but the password is never saved to the keychain. I have looked around to solve this issue for nearly a year and have never seen anyone talk about this, as I assume that it's such an obscure problem. I would be eternally grateful for any assistance!

Update: I finally figured it out. Google Earth depends on libgnome-keyring for storing passwords. I installed and enabled extra/gnome-keyring and installed aur/libgnome-keyring and it now remembers passwords.

scvg009 commented on 2025-10-05 16:02 (UTC)

Can 3D acceleration be added?

dobedobedo commented on 2025-09-30 11:41 (UTC)

The default script in /usr/bin/google-earth-pro is just a copy of /opt/google/earth/pro/google-earth-pro, which tries to open /usr/bin/googleearth-bin, which doesn't exist.

The best workaround is just to make /usr/bin/google-earth-pro a symbolic link to /opt/google/earth/pro/google-earth-pro in PKGBUILD 

ln -sf ${pkgdir}/${_installdir}/google-earth-pro ${pkgdir}/usr/bin/google-earth-pro

kb8doa commented on 2025-05-12 14:44 (UTC)

If there is no fix for this, is there not a way for me to set the updater to ignore this update?

iyanmv commented on 2025-05-08 17:06 (UTC)

mreeves87: This is a temporary workaround until upstream updates their binary. Then it will be possible to replace libxml2-legacy with libxml2. For now, this is needed here, as well as in many other packages. The reason is that Arch Linux updated libxml2 to 2.14, which breaks compatibility with binaries using earlier versions. From their changelog:

Binary compatibility is restricted to versions 2.14 or newer. On ELF systems, the soname was bumped from libxml2.so.2 to libxml2.so.16.

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