How do I install a bin file?

[Doug Stewart]

Pat Brown wrote:
> How can I install a bin file from a terminal? I have GoogleEarth and I 
> tried installing it with the Package Manager before but though it seemed 
> to install would never show up anywhere as an app to run. I can find a 
> lot of various files when I unpack the downloaded bin file, but I have 
> no idea how to run them, or even what to run. Does anyone here use 
> GoogleEarth? I tried signing up for the GoogleEarth help list, but the 
> advice I got was next to useless - I could never find the files where 
> people said they were.
>
> I'm stumped. I'd like to use GoogleEarth, but it looks like I should 
> have kept my Windows partition to do so.
>
>   
follow the instructions at Google earth
here they are



    How do I install Google Earth on Linux machines?

You can download and install Google Earth for Linux by following these 
instructions:

1. Visit http://earth.google.com/download-earth.html
2. Click on the "Linux" radio button under the category Beta (Version 
4), and select "Download Google Earth."
3. Open a terminal window/console and navigate to your default downloads 
directory. Enter the following command in the directory: > sh 
GoogleEarthLinux.bin
4. Follow the prompts to complete the installation. The default location 
for the program is "/usr/local/google/google-earth." If Google Earth was 
installed in its default location, you can launch it using the following 
command: > /usr/local/google/google-earth/googleearth