diff --git a/indra/newview/viewer_manifest.py b/indra/newview/viewer_manifest.py
index 55d64fd3a65b3f502016f2115c89bbacdf9af04c..5d35778e3e0d9f669338f96412b2b7edeeae7e64 100644
--- a/indra/newview/viewer_manifest.py
+++ b/indra/newview/viewer_manifest.py
@@ -247,13 +247,12 @@ def construct(self):
         
         self.disable_manifest_check()
 
+        self.path("../viewer_components/updater/scripts/windows/update_install.bat")
+
         # Get shared libs from the shared libs staging directory
         if self.prefix(src=os.path.join(os.pardir, 'sharedlibs', self.args['configuration']),
                        dst=""):
 
-            if self.prefix(src="../../viewer_components/updater", dst=""):
-                self.path("update_install.bat")
-                self.end_prefix()
 
             self.enable_crt_manifest_check()
 
@@ -575,12 +574,8 @@ def construct(self):
 
             # copy additional libs in <bundle>/Contents/MacOS/
             self.path("../../libraries/universal-darwin/lib_release/libndofdev.dylib", dst="MacOS/libndofdev.dylib")
-			
-					
-            if self.prefix(src="../viewer_components/updater", dst="MacOS"):
-                self.path("update_install")
-                self.end_prefix()
 
+            self.path("../viewer_components/updater/scripts/darwin/update_install", "MacOS/update_install")
 
             # most everything goes in the Resources directory
             if self.prefix(src="", dst="Resources"):
@@ -857,6 +852,8 @@ def construct(self):
             # recurse
             self.end_prefix("res-sdl")
 
+        self.path("../viewer_components/updater/scripts/linux/update_install", "bin/update_install")
+
         # plugins
         if self.prefix(src="", dst="bin/llplugin"):
             self.path("../media_plugins/webkit/libmedia_plugin_webkit.so", "libmedia_plugin_webkit.so")
diff --git a/indra/viewer_components/updater/CMakeLists.txt b/indra/viewer_components/updater/CMakeLists.txt
index 469c0cf05e4d3eda345fa9bb9744a9d76d6b9c33..0e288bb4963a52f91620cea48a01e7310659f92b 100644
--- a/indra/viewer_components/updater/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/indra/viewer_components/updater/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -80,25 +80,3 @@ set(UPDATER_LIBRARIES
   llupdaterservice
   CACHE INTERNAL ""
 )
-
-# Copy install script.
-if(DARWIN)
-	copy_if_different(
-		"${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/scripts/darwin"
-		"${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}"
-		update_installer_targets
-		"update_install"
-		)
-elseif(WINDOWS)
-	copy_if_different(
-		"${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/scripts/windows"
-		"${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}"
-		update_installer_targets
-		"update_install.bat"
-		)
-endif()
-add_custom_target(copy_update_install ALL DEPENDS ${update_installer_targets})
-add_dependencies(llupdaterservice copy_update_install)
-
-
- 
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/indra/viewer_components/updater/llupdaterservice.cpp b/indra/viewer_components/updater/llupdaterservice.cpp
index a1ad3e3381b41c9f364001845b27508af7bb0dd8..976e63909890bb5f5533a5715d03cf4ac68fbaea 100644
--- a/indra/viewer_components/updater/llupdaterservice.cpp
+++ b/indra/viewer_components/updater/llupdaterservice.cpp
@@ -353,9 +353,11 @@ void LLUpdaterServiceImpl::downloadComplete(LLSD const & data)
 
 void LLUpdaterServiceImpl::downloadError(std::string const & message) 
 { 
+	LL_INFOS("UpdaterService") << "Error downloading: " << message << LL_ENDL;
+
 	mIsDownloading = false;
 
-	// Restart the 
+	// Restart the timer on error
 	if(mIsChecking)
 	{
 		restartTimer(mCheckPeriod); 
@@ -365,7 +367,7 @@ void LLUpdaterServiceImpl::downloadError(std::string const & message)
 void LLUpdaterServiceImpl::restartTimer(unsigned int seconds)
 {
 	LL_INFOS("UpdaterService") << "will check for update again in " << 
-	mCheckPeriod << " seconds" << LL_ENDL; 
+	seconds << " seconds" << LL_ENDL; 
 	mTimer.start();
 	mTimer.setTimerExpirySec(seconds);
 	LLEventPumps::instance().obtain("mainloop").listen(
diff --git a/indra/viewer_components/updater/scripts/linux/update_install b/indra/viewer_components/updater/scripts/linux/update_install
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..acedaad25c017aec09b8c0133fafee74a42c63e5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/indra/viewer_components/updater/scripts/linux/update_install
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+#! /bin/bash
+INSTALL_DIR=$(cd "$(dirname $0)/.." ; pwd)
+export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$INSTALL_DIR/lib
+bin/linux-updater.bin --file "$1" --dest "$INSTALL_DIR" --name "Second Life Viewer 2" --stringsdir "$INSTALL_DIR/skins/default/xui/en" --stringsfile "strings.xml"
+