Package Details: google-earth-pro 7.3.6.10201-2

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: 1081
Popularity: 2.61
First Submitted: 2017-01-23 16:08 (UTC)
Last Updated: 2025-05-06 10:32 (UTC)

Pinned Comments

stronnag commented on 2022-06-18 17:03 (UTC)

Thanks, unfortunate timing then.

For reference, with Gnome shell / wayland I need to

unset QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME
unset QT_QPA_PLATFORM

to avoid 

Google Earth has caught signal 6.

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/

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glenjo commented on 2025-05-02 01:08 (UTC) (edited on 2025-05-02 01:13 (UTC) by glenjo)

I've got the same error that maderios is reporting.

So I did the nasty and created a link in /usr/lib/ using:

ln -s libxml2.so libxml2.so.2

It now launches and runs, but YMMV.

maderios commented on 2025-05-01 18:14 (UTC) (edited on 2025-05-01 19:17 (UTC) by maderios)

Issue is due to libxml2. Same issue with libxml2-git and/or official package

% google-earth-pro
/opt/google/earth/pro/googleearth-bin: error while loading shared libraries: libxml2.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Stonemincan commented on 2025-05-01 16:55 (UTC) (edited on 2025-05-01 16:56 (UTC) by Stonemincan)

This package no longer works. Something changed recently, as it worked only a few days ago. Tested on two different systems.

<deleted-account> commented on 2024-09-14 11:55 (UTC)

Could you change the upstream URL to https://www.google.com/earth/about/versions/?

HurricanePootis commented on 2024-05-09 04:56 (UTC)

Hey instead of asking users to make the change for their thing to work with wayland, why not just force x11?

diff --git a/PKGBUILD b/PKGBUILD
index 1de5b28..2dd15e2 100644
--- a/PKGBUILD
+++ b/PKGBUILD
@@ -56,6 +56,7 @@ package() {

     # desktop file
     mv "${pkgdir}/${_installdir}/google-earth-pro.desktop" "${pkgdir}/usr/share/applications"
+    sed -i 's/Exec=/Exec=env QT_QPA_PLATFORM=xcb /g' "${pkgdir}/usr/share/applications/google-earth-pro.desktop"

     # icons
     local _res
diff --git a/google-earth-pro.install b/google-earth-pro.install
index 2603fda..ab43d00 100644
--- a/google-earth-pro.install
+++ b/google-earth-pro.install
@@ -14,15 +14,11 @@ yellow="${bold}$(tput setaf 3)"

 post_install() {
     note "The launcher is called 'google-earth-pro'."
-    note "If you are using Wayland, modify the Exec line in the .desktop file:
-        Exec=env -u QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME -u QT_QPA_PLATFORM /opt/google/earth/pro/google-earth-pro %f"
     note "If experiencing graphical corruption:
         $ rm -r ~/.googleearth/Cache/"
 }

 post_upgrade() {    
-    note "If you are using Wayland, modify the Exec line in the .desktop file:
-        Exec=env -u QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME -u QT_QPA_PLATFORM /opt/google/earth/pro/google-earth-pro %f"
     note "If experiencing graphical corruption:
         $ rm -r ~/.googleearth/Cache/"
 }

dreieck commented on 2024-02-12 14:58 (UTC)

Can you add google-earth-pro-libproxy-patch as optional dependency (optdepends=("google-earth-pro-libproxy-patch: Add a 'libproxy' version that is known to work with Google Earth."))?

Regards!

cyqsimon commented on 2023-03-19 14:43 (UTC)

@jaro3 thanks for the idea regarding fixing proxy, I managed to get it to work.

I also made a package for this (google-earth-pro-libproxy-patch) so others can take advantage. Check the pinned comment for more details.

iyanmv commented on 2022-12-13 22:54 (UTC)

I will not update (for now) to the latest version 7.3.6.9326 because it crashes continuously for me.

fansuregrin commented on 2022-07-25 12:23 (UTC)

I got an issue. After closing google earth, the process of it did not terminate.

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