

This was an extremely frustrating experience, for that reason I decided to post the step-by-step method by which I was successfully not only to INSTALL Google Earth but also to get it to RUN in CentOS 7. Some of the problems resulted from requirements for 32 bit libraries, others for different reasons. I must of tried 12 different installs of Google Earth either 1) They did not install 2) They installed but would not start ( a very common complaint). However, when I switched to root via 'su' all went well. I forget the exact error was some time ago. I installed the repo and discovered it didn't install completely when using 'sudo'.

For reasons unknown I decided to try and install Google Earth for Linux on my CentOS 7.4 machine.
