[ubuntu-za] Google Gears Install failure

[Stefan Lesicnik]

Hi,

As the person who actually compiled and packaged gears for Ubuntu Lucid, i guess i should reply :)

At the time of lucid release, this was working. There have been numerous xul and firefox updates and it may be that gears needs to be rebuilt on these. Google has also pretty much dropped development of gears in favour or html5 as Karl stated before.

There are a number of suggestions and work arounds located here

https//bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gears/+bug/480596

Good luck

Stefan

----- Original Message -----
> Hi Johan,
> 
> I think that the package that you have to install is xul-ext-gears
> 
> Just check
> 
> in the repos for gears it says "This is a transitional dummy package
> to ease the migration from the gears to the new xul-ext-gears package.
> You can remove it safely."
> 
> Hope this helps
> William