Google Earth

kmz -> kml

cp foo.{kmz,zip}
unzip foo.zip
cp doc.xml foo.kml

Sonstiges

Schnüffelfunktion abschalten: tools -> Allgmein -> Nutzungsstatistiken an Google senden wegclicken.

Reiseführer abschalten: Ansicht -> Reiesführer wegclicken

Installing

Debian / Ubuntu

At least when running Debian under Windows Subsystem for Linux, Google Earth is dependent on libglu1-mesa:

sudo apt install -y libglu1-mesa

Actual installation

mkdir /tmp/google-earth
cd    /tmp/google-earth

wget https://dl.google.com/dl/earth/client/current/google-earth-stable_current_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i google-earth-stable*.deb

cd -
rm -r /tmp/google-earth

Windows Subsystem for Linux

WSL seems to have some problems with the show tips window which is displayed when Google Earth starts up.

In order to disable this tips window, the following line should be added to ~/.config/Google/GoogleEarthPro.conf under the [General] section:

enableTips=false

Links

https://github.com/ReneNyffenegger/about-GoogleEarth

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