How to get Google Earth installed via .DEB?

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Published on 2011-02-22T19:58:57Z Indexed on 2011/02/22 23:34 UTC
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Now I've really messed things up.

A long time ago, I installed Google Earth via a binary installer from Google (v5.1, I think).

Google now has version 6 available as a .DEB, so I decided to install that. However, that seems to have messed up both installations and now no matter what I do, I can't get Google Earth to run.

Here's what I do:

sudo apt-get purge google-earth-stable
sudo dpkg -i --force-overwrite google-earth-stable_current_amd64.deb

Which I thought would work... but when I run google-earth, I get:

/usr/bin/google-earth: 43: ./googleearth-bin: not found

How can I get it installed now?

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