Here the way I follow to install and make work Google Earth on Fedora 11 x86-64:
First download the linux version of Google Earth at : http://earth.google.fr/
open a terminal and become root:
su -
yum install google*
with an nvidia card you’ll need:
yum install xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs*.i586 (search with software install gui if it doesn't work)
and for ati card (thanks to space-hunter):
yum install xorg-x11-drv-catalyst-libs.i586
you’ll need these 32 bit libraries for Google to run quietly
yum install glibc-2.10.1-2.i686 libxml2.i586 freetype.i586 libXrender.i586 libXrandr.i586 mesa-libGL.i586 xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs.i586
Additions from Otto Mäkelä :
yum install libcanberra-gtk2.i586 bug-buddy.i586 PackageKit-gtk-module.i586
Then run :
sh GoogleEarthLinux.bin
it’s all…