OMG WTF.

So I uninstalled Google Updater, but it left a service behind that's bothering my firewall. Will it never end?!

P.S. Cheers Black Adder

I also hate it when you have to use a companies own "download helper/manager" when trying to install the programs, instead of downloading the full file in the first place!
Microsoft started this trend way back "Internet Exploder", Skype started doing this with version 4, and now Google!
Bloody hell, why is this necessary, at least give people a choice, not everybody out there are complete idiots!
Why do we need to download the program for each computer separately, it wastes precious time and bandwidth !

These 2 links might help somebody...

http://www.softpedia.com/progDownload/Google-Earth-Voyager-Download-72265.html

http://download.softpedia.com/dl/a01fb508adaa02b90bb63d8c686eb79e/49882ad9/100023512/software/other_tools/GoogleEarth-Win-Plus-5.0.11337.1968.exe

What? No solaris version?

That's what package managers are for David.

If that's hard just to install and run Google Earth, then there really is no hope for Linux in its current form.

How do I download Google Earth now without having to deal with the @#%$ing Google Updater?