Comment 3 for bug 1562948

Maybe others are willing to test on other ubuntu 16.04 flavors what I came up with to make GE run on ubuntu 16.04 64 beta2:

cd ~/Downloads
wget http://launchpadlibrarian.net/176607818/lsb-security_4.1+Debian11ubuntu8_amd64.deb
wget http://launchpadlibrarian.net/176607810/lsb-core_4.1+Debian11ubuntu8_amd64.deb
wget https://dl.google.com/dl/earth/client/current/google-earth-stable_current_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i lsb-security_4.1+Debian11ubuntu8_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i lsb-core_4.1+Debian11ubuntu8_amd64.deb
sudo apt install -f
sudo dpkg -i google-earth-stable_current_amd64.deb
sudo apt-get install libfreeimage3 libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-0
# credit to mr. amirpli from Google Products forum from here on (otherwise GE crashes and/or doesn't display the panoramio pics)
cd /opt/google/earth/free
sudo wget https://googledrive.com/host/0B2F__nkihfiNalQzN0ZmcjBPTGs/ge7.1.1.1580-0.x86_64-new-qt-libs-debian7-ubuntu12.tar.xz
sudo tar xvf ge7.1.1.1580-0.x86_64-new-qt-libs-debian7-ubuntu12.tar.xz
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