How to install Google Earth on Fedora 17

How to install Google Earth on Fedora 17

Google Earth for Linux is now reached version 7.2 which is more stable and more powerful. On this tutorial, I want to share how to install the latest Google Earth on Fedora 17. I am using Fedora 18 64bit edition (x86_64).

A. Download Google Earth binary (RPM) package for 64 bit Fedora

wget http://dl.google.com/dl/earth/client/current/google-earth-stable_current_x86_64.rpm

Or you can also click this link to download it using your web browser.

B. Install Google Earth on Fedora 17

On Terminal login as root and type the following command to install

rpm google-earth-stable_current_x86_64.rpm

Once finished, you can start using Google Earth on Fedora 17. Enjoy

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How to install Virtualbox on Fedora 17 Server

If you are running a Fedora 17 in server mode (without GUI or Desktop environment such as Gnome or KDE), you still can install and run Virtualbox in headless mode. This means, there is no GUI for the Virtualbox as well. In advanced we can install phpvirtualbox that will help us to manage and admnister the Virtualbox via web browser remotely.

This tutorial is going to show you how to install Virtualbox 4.2 on Fedora 17.

A. Create admin user on Fedora

Open Terminal and paste this command to add new admin group and admin user. Do this command as root.

groupadd admin
useradd -d /home/admin -m -g admin -s /bin/bash admin
passwd admin

 

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