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Google Gears 64-bit
Author: niels2 Feb
While eagerly installing Offline Gmail on my computers I ran into the fact the Google Gears is actually not available for 64-bit Linux. I managed to find a number of builds out there, but none that would actually work for me with Offline Gmail or the new WordPress.
Building it myself wasn’t as straight forward as I hoped, so let me safe you the hassle and allow me to share the result with you:
This build was tested with Firefox 3.0.5 on (k)Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid. Enjoy!
EDIT: Firefox reports the download to be 4G, but it will complete successfully after 2.7M.
Updated binary:
gears-linux-opt-05180.xpi
This build was tested with Firefox 3.0.9 on (k)Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty. (It will install but NOT work on Firefox 3.5.)
Updated binary:
gears-linux-opt-05210.xpi
Did not change anything for Firefox 3.5 this time, since it doesn’t work anyway.
94 Responses for "Google Gears 64-bit"
Excellent.. Thanks for the compiled version.
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Something is wrong
Really.
4Gb download?
This is what is shown in Addon download window.
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After restarting firefox everything is ok.
Strange ….
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gears-linux-opt-05110.xpi weights 4.0 GB…
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at least firefox says so during download, but it’s not downloading so much data
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Thanks for reporting the 4G issue. Let me look into that. (When using wget to download the file, it reports the file size correctly at 2.7M.)
To those about to download: Firefox reports the download to be 4G, but it will complete successfully after 2.7M.
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Thanks niels.
It is working at Hardry.
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[...] Google Gears. The one provided this way is only for 32 bit platforms, for 64 bit Linux, I found a third-party 64-bit compiled version in the blog of Niels Peen that works on my 64 Linux [...]
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Awesome, thanks!! You made it so easy.
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not working in firefox 3.1 under intrepid. It installs fine (probably because I have nightly tester tool installed). It displays a menu entry in the tools menu in firefox, but that entry doesn’t do anything. Gmail and every other google gears enabled website is not recognizing that google gears is installed.
Any solution for using google gears in firefox 3.1?
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Thanks for the download.
I wish someday an official support will come or at least, a PPA repository
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@tiftof: let me know exactly where you get your firefox 3.1 and I’ll check if I can get it to run with minor adjustments. Thanks.
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Works like a charm in Ubuntu 8.1 amd64. Many thanks.
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You just made my day. I wasn’t able to get it built myself so I was stuck using the same builds you found inadequate. You have provided something better that worked (openSUSE 11.1). Q.E.D. you rock!
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Doesn’t work for Youtube MultiUpload
“0% Cross-origin worker has invalid content-type header.”
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Thanks,
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You can get nightly 64-bit compiled firefox 3.1 beta from: ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/nightly/latest-mozilla-1.9.1/
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Thanks for the binary. Did you need to anything special to compile this? Dependencies etc? I can understand them not supporting this yet, but build instructions at least would be nice.
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Thanks a lot man, your post goes in my bookmark, I can’t understand why didn’t the google people made an unofficial build. Hope you continue the good work. 64 bit rocks
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Great !!!
it works great with ubuntu 8.10 64 bits
Thank you.
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Here the same with the Beta 3 of Firefox 3.1. My repos: https://launchpad.net/~fta/+archive/ppa
Thank you for the adjustements!
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I also have problems with it in Firefox 3.1. I installed FF 3.1 from “deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/fta/ubuntu intrepid main”
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You can get a 64-bit prerelease of Firefox 3.1b3 here:
ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-mozilla-1.9.1/
Thanks.
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[...] Earlier I posted that there was no Google Gears for Linux x64. Well I found a solution here. I was able to install it in a few minutes and I’m not in WordPress “turbo” mode. [...]
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Excellent work. I had been searching for this. I’ll try to help spread the word. I wish x64 was the standard so everything would be built for it by default. The transition from 32 to 64 has been going on for ages.
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Niels, could you provide build instructions, so those interested can build this themselves (that would be me) without reinventing the wheel?
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@Maxim the build instructions are provided by Google. From there on it’s just resolving missing dependencies which will depend on your current installation.
The only ‘special’ thing to do is to change set the targetPlatform to Linux_x86_64-gcc3 in base/firefox/install.rdf.m4.
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[...] nielspeen.com/blog/2009/02/google-gears-64-bit/ [...]
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Thanks! I checked out the source the other day and it is *huge*, btw. From your original article, I guessed you did some fancy things to get it to build on 64-bit, but it’s good to know it’s not that bad.
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yeah, I thought 4 GB was a bit too much
thanks for this!
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Thanks! ;-D
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Woohoo! A big thank-you for this! Works like a charm! – Kubuntu (jaunty beta) / Firefox 3.0.8
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It does not work in 3.1b. Any suggestion to get gears running on the third firefox beta?
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Can you please update this for Google Gears version 5.16?
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Kudos. Works nicely on Ubuntu 8.04 with FF 3.0.10. It’s remarkable google is behind the curve on this one.
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[...] the most recent version available is on Niel’s Blog. Go to that site, download the updated binary (at the moment it is gears-linux-opt-05180.xpi), and [...]
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Could you make 0.5.19.0 available?
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thx a lot worked great, but Google updated to 0.5.19.0, where can i get it? could u do it? cause every time i start ffx now it wants to update to the non 64-bit version of 0.5.19.0 :p
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Niel,
Thanks for this – I think it might be helpful to write an article on how you packaged up the xpi as it will allow people to light their candle from your flame and enjoy the latest builds of Google by learning from your experience.
Just a thought, meanwhile looking forward to your next release
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Hi Ed, no problem:
svn checkout http://gears.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ gears-read-only
cd gears-read-only/
cd gears/
make MODE=OPT
That’s it. Despite what you may read elsewhere, there are no patches needed to make things work on 64-bit. (Not for the last couple of versions anyway.) Occasionally things may be broken an not compile. Usually the fix is pretty straight forward, but if not you can just wait a few days and try an updated version. The binary uploaded today compiled flawlessly with above instructions.
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Thanks Niels!
BTW Cool to see you checking out China, must be amazing out there – keep taking those great pics, nice to see it from your perspective.
If you can I’d be keen to see a few shots of the street food markets if you get the chance.
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[...] http://nielspeen.com/blog/2009/02/google-gears-64-bit/ worked for me
!ubuntu [...]
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[...] My old colleague from my days at Greenpeace, Niels Peen, now provides the latest version (5.21.0) with proper build tagging. So you will no longer see the warning about Linux_x86_64-gcc3 [...]
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Thanks, Niels! Good to see you are keeping busy these days.
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Hey Niels, thanks for this, it’s a real time saver. Since you’re saving us time, why don’t you add Prism to your install.rdf so that we can install it directly:
prism@developer.mozilla.org
0.9
0.9.*
I just installed it into my Prism nightly and it is working great so far.
Thanks!
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Hmm, WordPress certainly ate that up… I’m sure you can figure it out yourself, just add another targetApplication object with:
id: prism@developer.mozilla.org
minVersion: 0.9
maxVersion: 0.9.*
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[...] http://nielspeen.com/blog/2009/02/google-gears-64-bit/ « Personalisiert macht [...]
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Bedankt !! / Thank you !!
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[...] Google Gears 64-bit With Ubuntu 9.04 64-bit And Firefox 3.0.10 Filed under: Uncategorized — Tags: Firefox 3.0.10, Google Gears 64-bit, Jaunty Jackalope, ubuntu — ioconnor @ 1:29 pm This morning I did a google search and found somebody who had done Google’s work for them. Merely clicking on it installed it correctly. Check out http://nielspeen.com/blog/2009/02/google-gears-64-bit/. [...]
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Works fine with Suse Linux 64 bit and Firefox 3.0.10.
You’re great, thank you!
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Great job!
Last build works in Ubuntu 9.04 with Firefox 3.0.10.
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Thank you. Working on Ubuntu 9.04 x86-64 with Firefox 3.0.11.
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[...] nielspeen.com – Google Gears 64-bit [...]
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[...] Download the 64 bit version of Google Gears found here. (There are 3 links; I used the last one : gears-linux-opt-05210.xpi). Download it with another [...]
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Thanks a lot! Worked like a charm.
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Thank you very much! Working fine here…
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Hello! Will you update gears to new version? Thank you!
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Hi. I only want to report that the plugins is not compatible with the version of iceweasel (3.0.6) coming with Debian Lenny.
Good work
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Hello,
Firefox was reporting the Gears have a new version but when I try to update a error is show (Linux_x86_64-gcc3 build type not compatible).
What this?
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[...] kann man seine Versionen hier. Hinweis: Der Download wird als 4GB Download angezeigt, ist aber in Wirklichkeit nur ca. 2,5 MB [...]
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[...] Y’a un mainteneur plus actif qui propose des versions plus à jour : http://nielspeen.com/blog/2009/02/google-gears-64-bit/ [...]
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Hi !
I post on my blog a link to yours ! ( http://blog.celogeek.fr/linux/linux-trucs-et-astuces/google-gear-64-bits/ )
Did they exist a version that’s working on Firefox 3.5 ?
I use wordpress a lot, and so impatient to have it
I don’t know if 32 bits version work actually on FF3.5 ? do you know that ?
Thanks for saving us lot’s of time for compiling this stuff
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Hi again,
I have a success of compiling Google Gears on 32 and 64 bits !
http://blog.celogeek.fr/linux/linux-trucs-et-astuces/google-gears-compilation/
It works fine on Firefox 3.5 on Ubuntu Jaunty.
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[...] Google Gears 64-bit | Niels’ Blog [...]
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using Celegeek’s instructions, and fixing a couple of compile errors (ignored return value warnings), I have compiled gears 0.5.32 for ubuntu/jaunty x64 and put it here: http://pickup.nieir.com.au/gears/ . This link will probably disappear in a couple of weeks.
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Installed with ease. Works perfectly. Cheers!
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[...] for Gmail and Google calander. Google doesn’t officially support Gears on 64 Bit Linux but Niels Peen compiled a working version for Firefox. I downloaded that version and then I un-zipped the [...]
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[...] but it doesn’t “officially” run on 64-bit linux, which is what I have. There is a package someone has put together, but I haven’t got it all to work [...]
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Works great with Ibex using Firefox 3.0.14 and the YouTube Multi-Video Uploader.
Thanks for the compile!!!
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The instructions here worked great for me. http://blog.celogeek.com/linux/linux-tips-and-tricks/google-gears-compilation/
Ubuntu 9.04 (jaunty) 64-bit and installed on Shiretoko/3.5.3 (Firefox 64-bit version 3.5.3 for Ubuntu canonical – 1.0).
BTW, the md5 for what I compiled:
d7b21468e807228e03b99a0a00b6a675 gears-linux-x86_64-opt-0.5.33.0.xpi
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[...] самая свежая версия. Периодически можно поглядывать сюда за обновлениями. Обратите внимание: при установке [...]
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Hey Nick! Thanks for the updated version!
It installed smoothly!
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Just updated gears at http://pickup.nieir.com.au/gears/ to 0.5.34. I will try to keep it up-to-date, at least until google releases office x64 updates, or Celegeek’s instructions stop working.
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Thanks Nick!!
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Excellent work, plays nicely with Karmic 64!
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Thx, this has definitely made my day!
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wtf
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Working on Shiretoko 3.5.5, ArchLinux
thanks a lot!
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works fine on 64 bit Karmic for mee too..
thanks a lot…
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I’ve just installed this on Debian testing, under iceweasel and it works great!
thanks
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[...] Google Gears 64-bit | Niels’ Blog [...]
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Thank you very much.
ciao
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Installed and working on Ubuntu Karmic with FireFox 3.5!
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[...] google no lanza google gears para linux de 64 bits. Pero aca encontre un binario no oficial que ha funcionado bien [...]
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Nick – Not working for 64-bit Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.5) Gecko/20091109 Ubuntu/9.10 (karmic) Firefox/3.5.5 GTB5
Gives me the build incompatibility error (Linux_x86-gcc3)
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Installed and working on Ubuntu Karmic with FireFox 3.5.6 !
Thanks !
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Thanks, great work.
Works for me on Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic 64b, firefox 3.5.6
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Thank you very much indeed, Niels! I didn’t do tests, but for the basic usage, it is working pretty well here.
I tested with Sabayon Linux 5.1 and FF 3.5.6.
Sammondane,
Ĥod
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For me the 5210-package (the last one) is working on Ubuntu 9.10 64bit with Firefox 3.5.7
Googlemail offline-mode (which depends on gears) is working fine.
Thanks a lot for providing these packages!
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Hi,
This effort was extremely useful, until Firefox 3.6 came out. Is there any chance of having a working Google Gears for this browser and 64 bits (Ubuntu Karmic)?
Thanks a lot,
Alejandro
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Here is a version of gears witch works fine on FF 3.6 & Sabayon 64bit
http://gears64.org/build/05340/3417
just install it
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Yup a FF 3.6 for Karmic 64 would be marv. Thanks
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Alejandro,
I need the same…
Sammondane,
Ĥod
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[...] Bit Linux with Gears. The project is open source, and a number of people have posted fixes. I found this link to be the simplest, just click on the appropriate link for your system, and it [...]
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