no, non funzionava si aprivano varie pagine incomplete e il globo sembrava un colabrodo,
ho seguito il tuo consiglio e questo è il risultato:

pino@pino-laptop:~$ cd /opt/google-earth
pino@pino-laptop:/opt/google-earth$ ls -l
totale 61716
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 66957 2009-02-18 23:01 drivers.ini
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1326 2009-02-18 23:01 googleearth
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 301804 2009-02-18 23:01 googleearth-bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4754 2009-02-18 23:01 googleearth-icon.png
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 638 2009-02-18 23:01 googleearth-mimetypes.xml
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 17748 2009-02-18 23:01 googleearth.xpm
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 416 2009-02-18 23:01 Google-googleearth.desktop
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 18011 2009-02-18 23:01 gpl.txt
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 245912 2009-02-18 23:01 gpsbabel
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 983 2009-02-18 23:01 ImporterGlobalSettings.ini
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5054 2009-02-18 23:01 ImporterUISettings.ini
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 2009-02-18 23:01 kh20
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2009-02-18 23:01 kvw
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2009-02-18 23:01 lang
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 14764 2009-02-18 23:01 libalchemyext.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 13480 2009-02-18 23:01 libapiloader.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 614656 2009-02-18 23:01 libauth.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 726912 2009-02-18 23:01 libbase.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 801616 2009-02-18 23:01 libbasicingest.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3305096 2009-02-18 23:01 libcollada.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 934492 2009-02-18 23:01 libcommon.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 37220 2009-02-18 23:01 libcomponentframework.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1196036 2009-02-18 23:01 libcrypto.so.0.9.8ubuntuible
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 209928 2009-02-18 23:01 libcurl.so.4
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 8699832 2009-02-18 23:01 libevll.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1279640 2009-02-18 23:01 libflightsim.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 16496 2009-02-18 23:01 libfusioncommon.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 42272 2009-02-18 23:01 libgcc_s.so.1
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3834352 2009-02-18 23:01 libgdal.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 322356 2009-02-18 23:01 libge_net.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3281044 2009-02-18 23:01 libgeobase.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 408008 2009-02-18 23:01 libgeobaseutils.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 517084 2009-02-18 23:01 libGLU.so.1
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1145932 2009-02-18 23:01 libgoogleearth_lib.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 572104 2009-02-18 23:01 libgooglesearch.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 488888 2009-02-18 23:01 libgps.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 415112 2009-02-18 23:01 libicudata.so.38
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1087360 2009-02-18 23:01 libicuuc.so.38
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 413160 2009-02-18 23:01 libIGAttrs.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 62340 2009-02-18 23:01 libIGCollision.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1006320 2009-02-18 23:01 libIGCore.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 82284 2009-02-18 23:01 libIGDisplay.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 551716 2009-02-18 23:01 libIGExportCommon.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3062172 2009-02-18 23:01 libIGGfx.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 264812 2009-02-18 23:01 libIGGui.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 296324 2009-02-18 23:01 libIGMath.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 891664 2009-02-18 23:01 libIGOpt.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1096720 2009-02-18 23:01 libIGSg.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 160300 2009-02-18 23:01 libIGUtils.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 291188 2009-02-18 23:01 libinput_plugin.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1778660 2009-02-18 23:01 liblayer.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 286072 2009-02-18 23:01 liblayout.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 217076 2009-02-18 23:01 libmath.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 500992 2009-02-18 23:01 libmeasure.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 23596 2009-02-18 23:01 libminizip.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 56212 2009-02-18 23:01 libmoduleframework.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1343328 2009-02-18 23:01 libnavigate.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 38052 2009-02-18 23:01 libport.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 208088 2009-02-18 23:01 libproj.so.0
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2244156 2009-02-18 23:01 libQtCore.so.4
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 7305864 2009-02-18 23:01 libQtGui.so.4
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 774340 2009-02-18 23:01 libQtNetwork.so.4
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 7265852 2009-02-18 23:01 libQtWebKit.so.4
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 605456 2009-02-18 23:01 librender.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 871596 2009-02-18 23:01 libstdc++.so.6
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 337504 2009-02-18 23:01 libwmsbase.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 89476 2009-02-18 23:01 libz.so.1
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2009-02-18 23:01 linux
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 661 2009-02-18 23:01 PCOptimizations.ini
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2009-02-18 23:01 plugins
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7 2009-02-18 23:01 qt.conf
drwxr-xr-x 267 root root 36864 2009-02-18 23:01 resources
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2009-02-18 23:01 shaders
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1702 2009-02-18 23:01 uninstall
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2009-02-18 23:01 xml
pino@pino-laptop:/opt/google-earth$