I was having this problem, too. On a different group I found the suggestion to install Gears via Internet Explorer rather than via Firefox (could be your situation). The installation is a bit more streamlined via IE and, for me, was successful; it adds the Firefox Add-on.
http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Chrome/thread?tid=72571d85eadb1d4f&hl=en Good luck, Greg On Mar 6, 8:53 pm, nicole lyn <[email protected]> wrote: > I am trying to download gears onto my laptop and it tells me this > > "Cannot download the application. The application ismissingrequired > files. Contact application vendor for assistance" > > Under details it explains, > > "ERROR SUMMARY > Below is a summary of the errors, details of these errors are listed > later in the log. > * Activation of C:\Documents and Settings\Laptop\Desktop > \GoogleInstaller_en.application resulted in exception. Following > failure messages were detected: > + Downloading file:///C:/Documents and > Settings/Laptop/Desktop/ > clickonce_bootstrap.exe.manifest did not succeed. > + Could not find file 'C:\Documents and > Settings\Laptop\Desktop > \clickonce_bootstrap.exe.manifest'. " > > Of course, I searched for some sort of "contact" to the so-called > "vendor" and there are only FAQs, and of course this Google Group. > > So can someone tell me what I might have done wrong? What ismissing? > How to I retrieve thismissingitem?
