Comments on: HOWTO: Install Gears on 64-bit Linux http://cad.cx/blog/2009/01/04/howto-install-gears-on-64-bit-linux/ Meanderings and punditry by a computer scientist with penchant for journalism, education, and politics Mon, 12 Sep 2011 15:49:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: The Flow of Consciousness » Blog Archive » 2009 Year in Review: Writing, stocks, coding, and more http://cad.cx/blog/2009/01/04/howto-install-gears-on-64-bit-linux/comment-page-1/#comment-31425 The Flow of Consciousness » Blog Archive » 2009 Year in Review: Writing, stocks, coding, and more Sat, 02 Jan 2010 21:30:23 +0000 http://cad.cx/blog/?p=366#comment-31425 [...] article on how to install Gears on 64-bit Linux continues to see quite a bit of traffic. I even host a copy of Gears, even though it’s likely [...] [...] article on how to install Gears on 64-bit Linux continues to see quite a bit of traffic. I even host a copy of Gears, even though it’s likely [...]

]]> By: JBaris http://cad.cx/blog/2009/01/04/howto-install-gears-on-64-bit-linux/comment-page-1/#comment-29418 JBaris Tue, 03 Nov 2009 20:48:48 +0000 http://cad.cx/blog/?p=366#comment-29418 Thanks Colin. Its works fine ! Regards Thanks Colin. Its works fine !

Regards

]]> By: Colin Dean http://cad.cx/blog/2009/01/04/howto-install-gears-on-64-bit-linux/comment-page-1/#comment-26926 Colin Dean Wed, 12 Aug 2009 03:41:20 +0000 http://cad.cx/blog/?p=366#comment-26926 It should be noted that Celogeek wrote out brief instructions of <a href="http://blog.celogeek.fr/linux/linux-trucs-et-astuces/google-gears-compilation/" rel="nofollow">how to compile Gears for yourself</a>. <div class="codeblock"><pre><code>svn checkout http://gears.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ gears-read-only cd gears-read-only/ wget http://gkovacs.xvm.mit.edu/google-gears-firefox-3.5-x86_64/gears-gcc433.diff patch -p0 -i gears-gcc433.diff make -C gears clean make -C gears -j3 MODE=opt #(enlever MODE= pour avoir la version debug, marche avec des warnings de compilation) #Pour l'installer : firefox ./gears/bin-opt/installers/gears-linux-opt-*.xpi</code></pre></div> It should be noted that Celogeek wrote out brief instructions of how to compile Gears for yourself.

svn checkout http://gears.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ gears-read-only
cd gears-read-only/
wget http://gkovacs.xvm.mit.edu/google-gears-firefox-3.5-x86_64/gears-gcc433.diff
patch -p0 -i gears-gcc433.diff
make -C gears clean
make -C gears -j3 MODE=opt #(enlever MODE= pour avoir la version debug, marche avec des warnings de compilation)
#Pour l'installer :
firefox ./gears/bin-opt/installers/gears-linux-opt-*.xpi
]]> By: Colin Dean http://cad.cx/blog/2009/01/04/howto-install-gears-on-64-bit-linux/comment-page-1/#comment-26925 Colin Dean Wed, 12 Aug 2009 03:34:42 +0000 http://cad.cx/blog/?p=366#comment-26925 It looks like Niel Speen is running behind. Someone at the Australian <a href="http://www.nieir.com.au/" rel="nofollow">National Institute of Economic and Industry Research</a> packaged <a href="http://pickup.nieir.com.au/gears/gears-linux-x86_64-opt-0.5.32.0.xpi" rel="nofollow">Gears 0.5.32.0 for x86_64</a> with a caveat that the link might disappear in a few days. I tried it out; it works fine. I've archived <a href="http://cad.cx/oss/gears-linux-x86_64-opt-0.5.32.0.xpi" rel="nofollow">Gears 0.5.32.0 for Firefox x86_64/amd64</a> in my <a href="http://cad.cx/oss" rel="nofollow">open source software archive</a>. The XPI won't work with Firefox 3.6 (I tried). Firefox 3.5 is soooo last month. I don't know how much longer I'll continue to keep up with this, as I've <a href="http://cad.cx/blog/2009/08/11/howto-add-cacert-root-certificates-to-chromium/" rel="nofollow">all but switched to Chromium</a>. It looks like Niel Speen is running behind. Someone at the Australian National Institute of Economic and Industry Research packaged Gears 0.5.32.0 for x86_64 with a caveat that the link might disappear in a few days. I tried it out; it works fine.

I’ve archived Gears 0.5.32.0 for Firefox x86_64/amd64 in my open source software archive.

The XPI won’t work with Firefox 3.6 (I tried). Firefox 3.5 is soooo last month.

I don’t know how much longer I’ll continue to keep up with this, as I’ve all but switched to Chromium.

]]> By: Colin Dean http://cad.cx/blog/2009/01/04/howto-install-gears-on-64-bit-linux/comment-page-1/#comment-25375 Colin Dean Tue, 23 Jun 2009 22:38:44 +0000 http://cad.cx/blog/?p=366#comment-25375 It appears that the above archive is no longer valid. Someone else is building packages and posting them to http://nielspeen.com/blog/2009/02/google-gears-64-bit/. It appears that the above archive is no longer valid.

Someone else is building packages and posting them to http://nielspeen.com/blog/2009/02/google-gears-64-bit/.

]]> By: Colin Dean http://cad.cx/blog/2009/01/04/howto-install-gears-on-64-bit-linux/comment-page-1/#comment-21660 Colin Dean Tue, 24 Feb 2009 23:44:03 +0000 http://cad.cx/blog/?p=366#comment-21660 A newer version is available at http://www-personal.umich.edu/~swolchok/gears/. A newer version is available at http://www-personal.umich.edu/~swolchok/gears/.

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