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[Gunnar Hjalmarsson <1268297@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Your thoughts are well understood, DrC.

I suppose one possibility would be to make Google Earth available in the
Canonical Partners repository in the same way as e.g. Skype. That way
users would be able to install it through the Ubuntu Software Centre.
Don't know the prerequisites for doing that, though.

@Steve: Is this possibly something you have considered?

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Status in “ubuntu-docs” package in Ubuntu:
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Bug description:
  1.  By its very nature resolving #327770 might solve this too.  I
  didn't find the How To.

  2. Context - I am trying to install Google Earth.  If that is not a
  supported process, and if you deliberately do not support the Google
  install, it would be nice to have a pointer somewhere to that sort of
  possibility.

  3. I could not find it in the Ubuntu store.  I finally found it (for
  Ubuntu 64bit) using Google search.

      It downloaded (Firefox) & after some long worrying silences (not
  good) & some prodding (even worse?) the Ubuntu installer said it was
  installing.

     Google said thankyou (web page)

  4. I have done a warm restart because I could not find the application
  on my desktop.  I still can't find it as a user.

  5. If I sudo, find it and manage to launch it, it is not clear how I
  can create an icon of the application.

  Ths bug report is explaining why I think the user guide will not meet
  the needs of a 'user' who would like to install Google Earth.  A work-
  around would be very welcome but it is not the real point!  There are
  generic gaps in the user guide which this specific problem exposes.

  Thanks

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
  Package: ubuntu-docs 12.04.6
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-58.88-generic 3.2.53
  Uname: Linux 3.2.0-58-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu17.6
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Sun Jan 12 12:51:50 2014
  EcryptfsInUse: Yes
  MarkForUpload: True
  PackageArchitecture: all
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: ubuntu-docs
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2013-10-01 (102 days ago)

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