Have LLV2.6 running on a Dell notebook, did this for Google Earth install
opened Terminal, entered:
wget
http://dl.google.com/earth/client/current/GoogleEarthLinux.bin && chmod +x GoogleEarthLinux.bin && ./GoogleEarthLinux.bin
System went out and did the install, all worked fine.
Tried on another system, same steps, now system says it can't create folders and the /etc/gnome/defaults.list.new: permission denied.
what am I missing?