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January 30th 2006 at 5:30 pm in GoogleEarth… Yeh everybody played with it — except the ones that only have a Linux-only computing environment… Google, at some point, will just either release a web-enabled version of the software (thus being operation system independent), or a Linux version will eventually be released.
Until then, us Linux-users are left with nothing. 
So — I downloaded the latest CVS version and started to configure it, without debugging:
wine-cvs$ ./configure --prefix=/opt/wine-cvs --disable-debug
After it was done configuring it was blabbing something about make depend && make so I ran the following command to be able to time stuff:
wine-cvs$ time make depend && time makeThe compile took about…
Wine build complete.
real 18m16.547s
user 14m21.701s
sys 1m1.663s
After installing, I couldn’t resist to run GoogleEarth without specifying any WINEDLLOVERRIDES to see what happens… Well that looked awfully similar to what happened before. 
The various WINEDLLOVERRIDES don’t work either.
The verdict on the CVS version? Close, but still no sigar…
[...] I tried it earlier, to no avail, but today I downloaded the latest version of WINE to try again to see if Google Earth works. [...]