Gears 64 Bit in Unbuntu Intrepid (8.10)

Gears (formally called Google Gears) does not (yet!) officially support 64 bit builds for linux/Ubuntu.

But, I have found that there has been significant work in the open source community to overcome this shortcoming with unofficial builds/patches.

Here are some links to background.
- http://groups.google.com/group/gears-users/browse_thread/thread/4584842dd14a4882?pli=1
- http://code.google.com/p/gears/issues/detail?id=335

Here is the link to the one that work for me.
- http://dev.laptop.org/~joel/gears/
- I used the latest version as of this writing which is gears-linux-opt-0.5.11+r3162_FIREFOX3_ONLY.xpi
- Works in Kubuntu 8.10 Intrepid with Firefox 3
- When you go to a page that has Gears capability, just try to enable and click the install button (even though it is already installed) and it will skip the installation and enable gears for that page.