This howto is _really_ old. Installs and runs out of the box for in wine 1.1.22.

This howto is written for a complete fresh install of Google Earth in a freshly created .wine directory:

1. Download GoogleEarth and install (just click OK in the messagebox about the missing psapi.dll)

2. Copy the font Arial.TTF into ~/.wine/drive_c/windows/fonts (copy it for example from a windows partition)

Thanks Jeremy Azevedo/Tim Harper for the following marvelous tip :

3. a) Open the file ~/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/Google/Google\ Earth/kvw/default_lt.kvw
    b) Take out the word "RenderFrame" (line ~44) and take out the word "NavigationFrame" (line ~59)
    c). Save the file

4. Set wineversion to Windows XP using winecfg 

5. Run GoogleEarth by

WINEDLLOVERRIDES="usp10,msvcrt=n" wine "c:\Program Files\Google\Google Earth\GoogleEarth.exe"
(Google Earth comes with it's own usp10.dl and msvcrt, so no need to download/copy this)

6. Resize the little Earth window to it's correct size and drag it to its correct position. It should look something like: