Attempting to use Google Latitude with Google Gears to track by WiFi, the XPI download says: "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.
Read the bug thread and see that Google Code has a hacked Gears package. But since Google is dropping Gears development for HTML5, Ubuntu should adjust the repository or flush Gears.
UBUNTU 9.10 WPU dl.google. com/gears/ current/ gears-linux- opt.xpi
FIREFOX 3.5.8
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Attempting to use Google Latitude with Google Gears to track by WiFi, the XPI download says: "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.
Read the bug thread and see that Google Code has a hacked Gears package. But since Google is dropping Gears development for HTML5, Ubuntu should adjust the repository or flush Gears.
This is a limbo legacy bug.