{"id":13293,"date":"2010-08-26T10:50:35","date_gmt":"2010-08-26T08:50:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/?p=13293"},"modified":"2010-08-26T10:51:17","modified_gmt":"2010-08-26T08:51:17","slug":"installing-google-talk-plugin-for-voice-and-video-on-fedora-linux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2010\/08\/26\/installing-google-talk-plugin-for-voice-and-video-on-fedora-linux\/","title":{"rendered":"Installing Google Talk plugin for voice and video on Fedora Linux"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

With recent news of Google adding support for telephone calls from GTalk, I thought it was time to finally setup voice and video plugin on my system. \u00a0The good thing is that Google provides the Linux version of the browser plugin. \u00a0The bad news are that the plugin is only packaged for Debian-based systems, while I am a Fedora Linux user. \u00a0But thanks to a couple of Google searches, the solution is known<\/a> and is quite simple in fact. \u00a0Here is what I had to do.<\/p>\n

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  1. Download<\/a> the browser plugin-in (.deb file, 6 MB).<\/li>\n
  2. Extract the content of the \ufeffgoogle-talkplugin_current_i386.deb<\/em> file, using ark<\/em>, or file-roller<\/em>, or, like me, using Midnight Commander.<\/li>\n
  3. In the extracted files, you’ll see data.tar.gz<\/em> . \u00a0 Extract it to your system folders (\/opt, \/usr, \/etc). \u00a0In fact, you can skip \/etc part that sets up a cron job to update the plugin daily. \u00a0It relies on apt, which you probably won’t have installed and configured on your Fedora system.<\/li>\n
  4. Try running the plugin in command line, using: \/opt\/google\/talkplugin\/GoogleTalkPlugin<\/em><\/li>\n
  5. If you see the error like “\/opt\/google\/talkplugin\/GoogleTalkPlugin: error while loading shared libraries: libssl.so.0.9.8: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory<\/em>“, fix it by creating a symbolic link: cd \/usr\/lib && ln -s libssl.so.1.0.0a libssl.so.0.9.8<\/em><\/li>\n
  6. If you see the error like “\/opt\/google\/talkplugin\/GoogleTalkPlugin: error while loading shared libraries: libcrypto.so.0.9.8: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory<\/em>“, fix it by installing Adobe Reader: yum install AdobeReader_enu-9.3.3-1.i486<\/em> , and t\ufeffhen creating the symbolic link: cd \/usr\/lib && ln -s \/opt\/Adobe\/Reader9\/Reader\/intellinux\/lib\/libcrypto.so.0.9.8<\/em> . \u00a0If you don’t have adobe repo configured or want an alternative to having Adobe Reader on your system, examine the output of “yum provides libcrypto.so.0.9.8<\/em>“, which will tell you which other packages have the required library.<\/li>\n
  7. Restart your browser.<\/li>\n
  8. Check that the plugin is installed and enabled by looking at “about:plugins<\/em>” or a similar page of your browser.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Now you should be able to use voice and video chat in GTalk. \u00a0Here is a screenshot I made of a video chat after I did all of the above steps.<\/p>\n

    \"\"If your browser still complains about not having the plugin installed, or plugin crashes for some reason, just run it from the command line (step 4). \u00a0Examine the output and act accordingly. \u00a0Usually everything should just work, and pretty much the only scenario when it doesn’t is when you don’t have required libraries installed on your system, or you have them installed in a different path than the plugin expects them. \u00a0Symbolic links should fix the path issue. \u00a0Yum should help you with locating any missing library.<\/p>\n

    Enjoy!<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n

    With recent news of Google adding support for telephone calls from GTalk, I thought it was time to finally setup voice and video plugin on my system. \u00a0The good thing is that Google provides the Linux version of the browser plugin. \u00a0The bad news are that the plugin is only packaged for Debian-based systems, while … Continue reading Installing Google Talk plugin for voice and video on Fedora Linux<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,6,62],"tags":[20,2071],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-13293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-linux","category-technology","tag-browsers","tag-google-talk"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":25965,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2016\/03\/23\/good-bye-google-chrome-hello-chromium\/","url_meta":{"origin":13293,"position":0},"title":"Good bye Google Chrome, hello Chromium","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"March 23, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Google dropped the support of its Google Chrome browser on 32-bit Linux operating systems. \u00a0This is very unfortunate, but not deadly. \u00a0This change doesn't affect the Chromium browser - the Open Source project behind Google Chrome. 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