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I am running Ubuntu 12.04. As you might know Google Earth 7 doesn't work in Ubuntu 12.04 yet.

I installed Google Earth via make-googleearth-package --force command. My installation was successful. At the beginning everything was working fine. But after some days I had a problem. When I type in "Fly to" box a city I wanted to search for it. It gives me "invalid HTTP request" error as seen in the picture:

Google-Earth picture

How to solve?

P.S: I removed and reinstalled it but problem still persists. I can search globe via mouse only.

WitchCraft
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Hejar Mukriyani
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This is due to an old libcurl version, that seems to cause the trouble. If you already have libcurl on your system (and I am pretty sure Ubuntu 12.04 has), you can simply rename the libcurl coming with Google Earth like this:

sudo mv /usr/lib/googleearth/libcurl.so.4 /usr/lib/googleearth/backup_libcurl.so.4

And the problem should be gone (the path in my Linux Mint and probably other distributions is /opt/google/earth/free/libcurl.so.4).

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I suddenly started seeing this error after running several updates. I tried a number of things unsuccessfully and finally updated GE to 7.1 - it couldn't hurt. Problem went bye bye! I hope this works for you.

Fred Beondo
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