All the guides which dominate the top Google search results are now, as i recently discovered, completely obsolete! As you probably know, Google Gears is not officially supported for 64-bit Linux, but being Free and open source software, somebody else can port it for them. The other guides out there describe how to download a .xpi Firefox browser addon from whoever, but they're old versions of Gears. If you've installed from those guides, i'm sure you've gotten the available update notification over and over but trying to update fails because although there's a new version of the official Google Gears, there isn't for the 64-bit copy you have.
With the latest version of Ubuntu, Karmic Koala, installing gears for 64-bit Linux just got a whole lot easier. Would you like to know how already? Are you sure you're ready for this? Here it is:
It's useless to me, though, since this will only benefit Firefox 3.5 (and above) users. I've switched to WebKit browsers for the sake of speed and standard, but even Chromium still doesn't support gears yet, so i'm pressing on without precious offline mode for now.
With the latest version of Ubuntu, Karmic Koala, installing gears for 64-bit Linux just got a whole lot easier. Would you like to know how already? Are you sure you're ready for this? Here it is:
sudo apt-get install gearsor just click here to install it. Yes, that's it! It's already conveniently packaged for you. You can even download the .deb from http://packages.ubuntu.com/karmic/gears but due to dependencies, it won't likely be useful to you unless you're running Ubuntu 9.10 anyways.
It's useless to me, though, since this will only benefit Firefox 3.5 (and above) users. I've switched to WebKit browsers for the sake of speed and standard, but even Chromium still doesn't support gears yet, so i'm pressing on without precious offline mode for now.
9 comments:
Wow thanks!
I was thinking of having my PC 64 bit and my laptop 32 bit. Gears was one of the few reasons for me wanting to stay with the 32 release.
Now if only Adobe would hurry up and release a native 64 bit AIR :)
I love how we have apturl now :D I also noticed that you can easily install gears, but also notice it doesn't do anything useful for Chromium, although I've read that you can manipulate the plugin to work with Chromium since it uses the standard Netscape API, much how Flash (doesn't) work.
Thanks for the tip. On Google Chrome myself, so won't help.
Instead of promoting gears, should we (the community) be pushing sites to support the standards (such as HTML 5 offline) instead?
Craig: That's actually Google's position, at least for Chromium on linux. See this:
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=17443
"Gears overlaps with a lot of HTML5 (since many HTML5 features are derived from Gears).
Current plan is to skip Gears and go directly to HTML5 implementations within Chrome."
Works like a charm, thanks! Just won't synchronise fully as of yet unfortunately.
Hi,
I was looking for such configuration.I will try this one and I hope the Gears will work perfectly on the 64-bit version.
Camera Bags
Hey!
Thanks very much, been waiting for this for ages! Good man!
Yogiman!
It is not working with Firefox 3.6 and Ubuntu Karmic 64 bits. Any suggestions?
Alejandro
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