Update fails on Linux/Firefox (incompatible build type)

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Start Firefox 3.0.15 on Linux Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty
2. Firefox will report that there is newer version of Gears
3. Update of Gears will fail (see message bellow)

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
Update of Gears is expected. Instead of that update fails with message:

"Google Gears" could not be installed because it is not compatible with
your Firefox build type (Linux_x86-gcc3). Please contact the author of this
item about the problem.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
0.5.32.0;official;opt;linux;firefox
Linux Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty
Firefox 3.0.15

Please provide any additional information below.
It keeps repeating again and again since Firefox tries to update automatically.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by jhnd...@gmail.com on 18 Nov 2009 at 10:06

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Also fails on Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic with Firefox 3.5.4

Original comment by james.as...@gmail.com on 20 Nov 2009 at 4:36

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Also on Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic with FF 3.5.5.

Original comment by mikerogerz on 20 Nov 2009 at 6:45

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seems to be the same as already logged issue# 975. I propose a merge to that 
issue...

Original comment by osk...@gmail.com on 21 Nov 2009 at 7:12

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fails on FF 3.5.5, Karmic, Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.5)
Gecko/20091109 Ubuntu/9.10 (karmic) Firefox/3.5.5

Original comment by fdoerksen@gmail.com on 22 Nov 2009 at 7:32

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fails also for Kubuntu 9.10 Karmic + Firefox 3.5.5

Original comment by ptrdv...@gmail.com on 25 Nov 2009 at 1:10

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Still failing with Jaunty and the current Firefox. I've been seeing this for 
several
weeks now, running past a number of updates. 

From Launchpad, I've seen some reports that suggest the problem might be 
related to
language issues, and I do have the Japanese language installed, including input 
and
the Firefox settings. My preferences are for English first, however. Do the 
other
people reporting this problem also have non-English language packages installed?

Probably not relevant, but the hardware is a Sharp laptop with an AMD CPU. It's 
never
worked perfectly with Ubuntu, but the last major glitch seemed to have been 
cured by
the Jaunty upgrade. (I just upgraded to Karmic in a scratch partition on the 
same
machine, but that's caused so many new problems that I'm not going to upgrade my
working partition yet.)

Original comment by shannon....@gmail.com on 30 Nov 2009 at 4:36

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Not working on 9.10 Karmic 64-bit with Firefox 3.5.5.

Original comment by akaking...@gmail.com on 1 Dec 2009 at 4:56

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Also not working with Linux Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty + Firefox 3.5.5

Original comment by dorak...@gmail.com on 9 Dec 2009 at 1:51

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IT seems to be working, but I do get many dialogues complaining that I have 
Shiretoko 
- the wrong version of Firefox???

Original comment by Ben2t...@gmail.com on 9 Dec 2009 at 3:44

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Still broken here, and it complains two or three times after each boot... I'm 
only
seeing on this one machine, so there must be something odd here. Where do I 
look to
figure out the REAL problem?

Original comment by shannon....@gmail.com on 9 Dec 2009 at 10:02

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still broken.

gears v. 0.5.32.0
firefox v. 3.0.14
ubuntu 9.04
kernel 2.6.28-16-generic #55-Ubuntu SMP

Original comment by jmm...@gmail.com on 12 Dec 2009 at 10:06

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Ubuntu 9.10 AND Kubuntu 9.10 both get this error, on both old and new installs 
of the
latest repo version of Firefox.

Original comment by baseball...@gmail.com on 12 Dec 2009 at 6:13

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Same thing here, on Fedora 12, kernel 2.6.31.6-166, Firefox 3.5.5-1, Gears 
0.5.32.0 .
It is NOT a language issue, as I have an English system, and no additional 
language
packs installed.
The message seems to pop up kind of randomly, I just got the popup, but there 
is no
new update. Maybe it's firefox not being able to check for updates?

Reinstalling google gears does not solve the issue.

Original comment by romano.n...@gmail.com on 13 Dec 2009 at 10:40

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Not working Ubuntu 9.10 and Firefox 3.5.5

Original comment by rogerslu...@gmail.com on 17 Dec 2009 at 12:39

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Same random error popup

Gears 0.5.32.0
Firefox 3.5.2
Fedora 11
2.6.29.6-217.2.3.fc11.i686.PAE i386 GNU/Linux

Original comment by gokhanse...@gmail.com on 27 Dec 2009 at 12:06

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I see it's already a month since I reported it as an OLD issue. Now it seems to 
be
complaining about twice per login. However, I haven't seen it on several other
machines, so I don't think it's that widespread. I think this means that Google 
Gears
is only installed in unusual cases, but I don't know why that particular 
machine has
installed it. 

For what it is worth, I just checked this machine, where I have Ubuntu 9.10 
running
in VMware Player. Everything seems to be running normally there, but Google 
Gears is
evidently NOT installed there. Ditto for the Firefox 3.5.6 running in the host
Windows XP.

I don't really care if this is just more evidence of Google's trend to evil 
greed or
simple incompetence, but I'm tired of the warnings and the repeated 2.7-MB 
downloads
to no avail. Is there any reason not to uninstall Google Gears completely from 
that
machine? Will I encounter some kind of crisis if I try to load some webpage that
still needs Google Gears (which is evidently no longer supported for Linux)?

Original comment by shannon....@gmail.com on 27 Dec 2009 at 12:58

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See issue 975.

Original comment by r.drew.d...@gmail.com on 29 Dec 2009 at 1:17

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This is still happening ("Google Gears" could not be installed because it is not
compatible with your Firefox build type (Linux_x86-gcc3). Please contact the 
author
of this item about the problem.) in FF 3.5.7 (Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; 
en-US;
rv:1.9.1.7) Gecko/20100106 Ubuntu/9.10 (karmic) Firefox/3.5.7) under Ubuntu 9.10
(Karmic).

I am attributing the failure of my HTC Hero to sync with Google Calendar to 
this :-)
because it was for that purpose GCal wanted me to install Gears.

Is there any move to solve the problem?

Original comment by anglebra...@gmail.com on 14 Feb 2010 at 9:36

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I 'solved' it by uninstalling the software long ago, and so far I haven't 
noticed any
negative ramifications. Perhaps another one of Google's orphaned projects? I 
think
some components were used in other things, but maybe it doesn't have any 
'standalone'
existence now?

However, my main reason for revisiting the thread was to try to unsubscribe 
from this
mooted discussion. It appears Google doesn't offer that level of control, so 
the only
option available is to cancel all follow-up notices. Yet more evidence of the
increasing evil of Google? (Okay, so my real beef is that they deleted a bunch 
of
political mumblings I wrote--but which I (of course) regard as a First Amendment
matter. At this point it makes me laugh to hear that Google is bothered by 
Chinese
censorship, when Google has apparently become the biggest censors of all.)

Original comment by shannon....@gmail.com on 17 Feb 2010 at 1:21

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For those that are getting here after searching for the answer here is a 
breakdown of
the problem.

The version being downloaded from the gears site is for 64bit and not 32bit. A
comment on another issue 
http://code.google.com/p/gears/issues/detail?id=975#c50 has
a link to a place where an older (5.33) can be found and used.

Original comment by kirkhams...@gmail.com on 19 Mar 2010 at 6:36

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@ kirkhamsystems
"For those that are getting here after searching for the answer here is a 
breakdown of
the problem.
The version being downloaded from the gears site is for 64bit and not 32bit. 
..."

here is a step-by-step for 32bit users:

mkdir /tmp/gears ; cd /tmp/gears

wget http://dl.google.com/gears/current/gears-linux-opt.xpi 

unzip gears-linux-opt.xpi

sed -i "s/Linux_x86_64-gcc3/Linux_x86-gcc3/" install.rdf

zip -r gears-linux-opt.xpi install.rdf

Now open firefox then press CTRL+O (open file), browse to /tmp/gears/ and 
install the
"patched" gears-linux-opt.xpi

Done!
:D

Original comment by squashs...@gmail.com on 13 Apr 2010 at 1:38

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Fabulous! That worked!  Very grateful :)

Original comment by jupp....@gmail.com on 3 May 2010 at 8:57

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Thank squashspam.

it worked on my
linux:ubuntu 10.04
firefox:3.6.3 ko

Original comment by simry...@gmail.com on 28 May 2010 at 11:39

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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):

craigster0@temp[gears]pwd
/tmp/gears

craigster0@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

Original comment by charms...@gmail.com on 1 Jun 2010 at 3:33

Attachments:

• gears-linux-fixup

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I found a real fix over in Issue 975.  Check out comment 69:

http://code.google.com/p/gears/issues/detail?id=975#c69

I've posted the fix to the Google Support Forum.  it's:

http://www.google.hu/support/forum/p/Calendar/thread?tid=0a2aba02dfbeb1b4&hl=en

Beats me why that's "google.hu".

Original comment by craigst...@gmail.com on 1 Jun 2010 at 4:36