Comment #25 on issue 977 by charmster: Update fails on Linux/Firefox
(incompatible build type)
http://code.google.com/p/gears/issues/detail?id=977
that worked for me, too! yeah! however, the exact set of commands didn't
work
because wget puts gears-linux-opt.xpi in a sub-directory. i've attached a
script
that will do the job, and also appended its contents below.
note that you need to have the zip and unzip packages installed for this to
work. if
you don't have them installed, you can use the Package Manager which can be
found as
System->Administration->Synaptic Package Manager in Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid
Lynx). or
you can install them using
sudo apt-get install zip unzip
after the script runs, you must still open the file gears-linux-opt.xpi
from Firefox.
here's the contents of the script:
[ -d /tmp/gears ] || mkdir /tmp/gears || exit 2
cd /tmp/gears
wget -nd http://dl.google.com/gears/current/gears-linux-opt.xpi
unzip gears-linux-opt.xpi install.rdf
sed -i "s/Linux_x86_64-gcc3/Linux_x86-gcc3/" install.rdf
zip -f gears-linux-opt.xpi
Attachments:
gears-linux-fixup 250 bytes
