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this is very weird. I open google earth and search for "athens, greece" for example, and even though it will through a pin on top of the correct location, the google earth globe will turn and zoom in towards a location in the sahara desert!

Could this be related to the regional settings on the computer? 

nass@stardust:~$ locale
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC=el_GR.UTF-8
LC_TIME=el_GR.UTF-8
LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY=el_GR.UTF-8
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER=el_GR.UTF-8
LC_NAME=el_GR.UTF-8
LC_ADDRESS=el_GR.UTF-8
LC_TELEPHONE=el_GR.UTF-8
LC_MEASUREMENT=el_GR.UTF-8
LC_IDENTIFICATION=el_GR.UTF-8
LC_ALL=

What else could it be?

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With google-earth-pro-stable-7.3.2.5776-0.x86_64, I use LC_NUMERIC=C to fix the problem while keeping the language of the application unchanged. You can run:

LC_NUMERIC=C google-earth-pro

or edit /opt/google/earth/pro/googleearth to add this just after the header of file :

export LC_NUMERIC=C
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I can verify that by changing the regional settings to en_US.UTF-8 the problem vanishes. The obvious difference is that greek uses 'comma' as a decimal separator and that mixes google earth somehow.

I am not sure if this is a bug on google-earth's code (since this error does not show up in,say, windows OS) or in ubuntu. But they should probably be notified.

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This solution worked for me:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/googleearth-package/+bug/1160289

These are the instructions I followed:

"I created a script and named it "earth.sh" (without the quotes).

  sudo gedit earth.sh

and placed the following lines inside it:

 #!/bin/bash
 LANG=en_US google-earth

Then I placed said script inside /opt/google/earth/free:

 sudo cp earth.sh /opt/google/earth/free

Then I opened /usr/share/applications/google-earth.desktop:

 sudo gedit /usr/share/applications/google-earth.desktop

and changed the "exec" command to "/opt/google/earth/free/earth.sh".

Now google earth opens and the search function works ok even if the language is not US english."

Definitively its an issue with the regional settings.

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  • Thank you! This got me on the right track. But instead of your exact steps, I just edited /opt/google/earth/free/googleearth (a shell script) and inserted LANG=en_US right after the interpreter line. One change and it all works. – Zdenek May 27 '17 at 20:32
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Between the last line starting with a # and FindPath(), insert LANG=en_US and save

it works just fine on my Lubuntu 18.04 / Google Earth Pro 7.3.1.4507 (64-bit) with Swedish locale. There are no problems with non-english letters (Å, Ä, Ö)

So that part of the file now looks like this:

# Function to find the real directory a program resides in.
LANG=en_US
FindPath()
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