Comment 5 for bug 595887

Hello, I finnally found a way to install Google Earth in Ubuntu Maverick Alpha (also good for Ubuntu Lucid Lynx or for any version with that bug).

For installing Google Earth in Ubuntu, I do not recommend downloading from site. You must not do:
download .bin from http://earth.google.com/ nor .deb from https://launchpad.net/ubuntu
sudo apt-get install googleearth-package
cd /usr/bin/
ls -l make-googleearth-package
sudo chmod a+rwx make-googleearth-package
cd ~/Downloads
sudo chmod a+rwx GoogleEarthLinux.bin
sudo sh GoogleEarthLinux.bin

You must instead do - this installing method would be successfull:
sudo wget http://www.medibuntu.org/sources.list.d/`lsb_release -cs`.list --output-document=/etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list
->(I have Maverick alpha so Medibuntu is not yet available, so I grab it from last Ubuntu code name)->
sudo wget http://www.medibuntu.org/sources.list.d/lucid.list --output-document=/etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list
wget -q http://packages.medibuntu.org/medibuntu-key.gpg -O- | sudo apt-key add -
sudo apt-get --yes -q --allow-unauthenticated install medibuntu-keyring
sudo apt-get -q update

Than I go to Synaptic Package Manager and install the following:
apport-hooks-medibuntu (version 1medibuntu1) will be installed
googleearth (version 5.1.3533.1731-0medibuntu1) will be installed
googleearth-data (version 5.1.3509.4636-0medibuntu1) will be installed

If it isn't it is because you deleted the non-free repository in medibuntu. To get it back, add " non-free " word next to " free ":
sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list
## Please report any bug on https://bugs.launchpad.net/medibuntu/
deb http://packages.medibuntu.org/ lucid free non-free #Medibuntu - Ubuntu 10.04 "lucid lynx"
#deb-src http://packages.medibuntu.org/ lucid free non-free #Medibuntu (source) - Ubuntu 10.04 "lucid lynx"

Google Earth appears in Applications > Internet
You can also do: sudo googleearth

This bug must be related with copyrights problems.
The .bin and .deb shouldn't be available for public download if they can't be installed because they are non-free.
Public download of Google Earth works only for Windows.

I propose it isn't a bug but a security inside the program itself.