I used Google-Desktop for Linux (GDL) for some time in a Fedora 8
32bit system and was very happy with it. Then I upgraded to Fedora 9
64 bits (the system is a Dell Inspiron 1420, Intel Core Duo T5450),
but I can't make it work. I downloaded the 64 bit packages (current
version google-desktop-linux-1.2.0-0088.x86_64) and I do have a 64 bit
browser firefox-3.0-1.fc9.x86_64).

After installing the package with yum I launched GDL from the KDE
menu. I also tried to launch it manually

   $ /opt/google/desktop/bin/gdlinux

In both cases it seems that GDL starts working, it creates a ~/.google
directory with a bunch of files in there. Also monitoring with `top' I
see gdl_fs_crawler and indexer, for instance

    [mstorti@galileo Download]$ ps ax | grep gdl
     5908 ?        S      0:00 /opt/google/desktop/bin/gdl_service --
Verbose=FATAL
     5909 ?        S      0:00 /opt/google/desktop/bin/gdl_config
     5910 ?        Sl     0:00 /opt/google/desktop/bin/gdl_indexer
     5911 ?        Sl     0:03 /opt/google/desktop/bin/gdl_fs_crawler
     6054 pts/1    R+     0:00 grep gdl
    [mstorti@galileo Download]$

After a minute or two all programs disappear. This is strange per-se
because I have some 10GB in my home directory, so that it should take
more than 20' to index those files (I figure this number from the time
it usually take for my previous installation on Fedora 8 32 bits).
Finally I can't search my items,  Ctrl-ctrl doesn't work and I dont't
have an applet in the panel.

I see in the docs that GDL is supported on Fedora up to release
7. Perhaps this is the problem?

http://desktop.google.com/support/linux/bin/answer.py?answer=63287&cb...

TIA for any help, Mario

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Summary of packages

google-desktop-linux-1.2.0-0088.x86_64
firefox-3.0-1.fc9.x86_64
kernel-2.6.25.6-55.fc9.x86_64
kdebase-4.0.5-3.fc9.x86_64

even i faced the same problem. actually the problem is that the google
desktop by default installs in opt and does not even update the  ld
lib path to non standard library locations.

I did it manually and it is working fantastically.

just add the location of google desktop libraries in a new line to /
etc/ld.so.conf

my entry looks like this

[root@localhost ~]# cat /etc/ld.so.conf
include ld.so.conf.d/*.conf
/opt/google/desktop/lib
[root@localhost ~]#

And after doing this run command ldconfig -v and you are done. kill if
any previous process related to google desktop, the ones mentioned in
your post abpve are runnign and restart/.

Hope this helps buddy.

-- Chandan.

On Jun 25, 9:29 pm, Mario Storti wrote:

It sounds very possible that this will fix the issue. Unfortunately I
can't try it now beacuse I broke mi notebook, but I think in some
weeks I will have it again. I can't figure out whiy it is that GDL
works in the system I'm working now. I do  a

   # ldconfig -v | grep gdl

and gives nothing, and certainly /opt/google/desktop/lib is not in the
ld.so.conf. May be for some reason in the 32 bit version the path is
correctly included in the binary with a -rpath option or something
like that (I don't recall exactly the ld option now), and it is not
included in the 64 bit version.

BTW, was it also a 64 bit version in your case?

In any case, this sounds like a FAQ, isn't it? Does GDL people read
the thread? Or we have to file a bug, and where?

Thanks a lot,

Mario

On Jul 1, 8:50 am, Chandan wrote: