Comment #26 on issue 977 by charmster: Update fails on Linux/Firefox
(incompatible build type)
http://code.google.com/p/gears/issues/detail?id=977
Well, that solves the problem of getting Gears to install, but it doesn't
actually
work once it's installed!
The problem appears to be that Google has gone from shipping a 32-bit only
version of
gears to shipping a 64-bit only version (if you look in the unpacked
archive you'll
find several shared libraries, all of which are 64 bit only):
craigst...@temp[gears]pwd
/tmp/gears
craigst...@temp[gears]find . -name '*.so' | xargs file
./lib/ff35/libgears.so: ELF 64-bit LSB shared object, x86-64, version 1
(SYSV),
dynamically linked, not stripped
./lib/ff30/libgears.so: ELF 64-bit LSB shared object, x86-64, version 1
(SYSV),
dynamically linked, not stripped
./lib/ff36/libgears.so: ELF 64-bit LSB shared object, x86-64, version 1
(SYSV),
dynamically linked, not stripped
Also, for what little it's worth i corrected the above set of commands and
put them
in a script which is attached to this email. But there's not much point in
running it.
My system is FireFox 3.6.3, Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (Lucid Lynx), and here's the
output of
uname -a:
Linux temp 2.6.32-21-generic #32-Ubuntu SMP Fri Apr 16 08:10:02 UTC 2010
i686 GNU/Linux
Attachments:
gears-linux-fixup 250 bytes
