I don't know if this is the reason, but after reading the requirements on this page:
http://code.google.com/apis/gears/gears_faq.html#linuxCompatible I checked to see if the libraries were there. Apparently, I had both libstdc++5 and libstdc++6 with 5 being required by win32codecs on my ubuntu 9.10. As soon as I got rid of it, I noticed that google docs suddenly started working. No more error installing software. Weird, but it's working fine now. On Nov 19, 2:47 am, [email protected] wrote: > hello peeps, > i notice programs such as many ff extensions and ggl gears, tend to fall out > of synch with firefox updates. On the mozilla extension developer's > extension, in the forum i found an answer from 'roachfiend', to a similar > query about a similar problem, wondering if it applies to this topic, here > is a quote from the article in XUL forum: > > " Target application is what you’re gearing this for. The ec8030f7… is > unique to Firefox, so leave that alone. The minversion and maxversion is > what versions of Firefox it will be compatible with. There was a big stink > about this recently, since the developers introduced 0.9.1, shortly after > telling us to make sure and only put a maxVersion of 0.9. This does not > compute. So I recently modified mine to go to 9.9, which will ensure > compatibility through the next few versions of Firefox. This isn’t the type > of thing that mozilla will support, since they can only recommend keeping > the maxVersion to the current release, but it’s the best way to keep you > sane, so you don’t have to update your extensions every few weeeks." > > On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 2:15 AM, John F. <[email protected]> wrote: > > I checked out that support.mozilla.com link, and I think they had the > > right target but the wrong solution (possibly a typo). Instead of > > 3.5.* (which is what the line reads in the download) it should read > > 3.6 (which is what it read in previous versions). I posted more at the > > link in Te's post. > > >http://code.google.com/p/gears/issues/detail?id=975 > > > This could be a Firefox bug, as the Mozilla documentation states that > > "3.5.*" should be a valid value. > > > On Nov 14, 6:02 pm, Ron Wolf <[email protected]> wrote: > > > thanks Troy & Te. everyone look at Te's post, follow the link and help > > > prioritize this problem as Te suggests. > > > > mostly to save others the effort of looking further into a possible > > > fix for this, i want to document that i found this reference to the > > > problem (or a similar one) > > > >http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/forum/1/398497?s=google%20gears%20co... > > > [snip]
