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====Troubleshooting====
If Google Earth opens, shows the splash screen, and then crashes, you’re probably experiencing a common issue. Running ~/google-earth/googleearth in a terminal will show this error:
./googleearth-bin: relocation error: /usr/lib/i686/cmov/libssl.so.0.9.8: symbol BIO_test_flags, version OPENSSL_0.9.8 not defined in file libcrypto.so.0.9.8 with link time reference

To fix this, browse to the folder you installed Google Earth into. By default this will be google-earth in your home folder. Find the file libcrypto.so.0.9.8 and rename it to something else, like libcrypto.so.0.9.8.bak. Google Earth should now start correctly.

 cd ~/google-earth
 sudo mv libcrypto.so.0.9.8 libcrypto.so.0.9.8.bak
 sudo ln -s /usr/lib/libcrypto.so.0.9.8 ~/google-earth/libcrypto.so.0.9.8

:(Note: You can also specify /home/''user''/google-earth instead of ~/google-earth ).

For other issues, see the [https://help.ubuntu.com/community/GoogleEarth Ubuntu help pages on Google Earth].