Does Google Earth look like a low-quality reject from Windows 98? Crap GUI elements, worse fonts?

Google Earth looks like crap because it ships with some weird Qt libraries. If you remove these libraries and point GE at the ones the rest of the OS uses, it should look like it belongs.

NB: I've only tried this in 32-bit Xubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric) but it should work for many distros

Here's how:

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**You will require admin, super-user or sudo rights to perform all of these steps**

1. Install the following:
   
   
   • libfreeimage3
   • libphonon4
   • libphonon4-designer
   
   
2. Move, rename or delete the following files:
   
   
   • /opt/google/earth/free/libQtWebKit.so.4
   • /opt/google/earth/free/libQtNetwork.so.4
   • /opt/google/earth/free/libQtGui.so.4
   • /opt/google/earth/free/libQtCore.so.4
   
   
3. Edit last line of /opt/google/earth/free/googleearth to
   
   Oneiric (32-bit)
   
   

   	Code: export LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libfreeimage.so.3 LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib:.:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH ./googleearth-bin "$@"

   
   
   Oneiric (64-bit)
   
   

   	Code: export LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib32/libfreeimage.so.3 LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib32:.:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH ./googleearth-bin "$@"

I couldn't give a dead rats arse about the fonts it uses as long as they are readable but I Would like the zoom to streetview option back !