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Originally Posted by linuxeventually View Post
.rpm isn't actually needed. I wrote a script that extracts the contents of the .deb package and does a few other little tricks to get things working in Fedora.

The real issue is that they have only released a x86 and x86_64 version of their 3 binaries: GoogleTalkPlugin (FYI depends on libssl.so.0.9.8 and libcrypto.so.0.9.8), libnpgoogletalk.so (voice) and libnpgtpo3dautoplugin.so (hardware acceleration + video). No ARM support for now...

Testers wanted (desktop Linux only, x86 & x86_64)
http://www.box.net/shared/9dz9rsh7l7
download, chmod +x, run script as root, follow instructions. Requires glew package (non-dev), get that from your distro's repo.

I need to do more testing and improve the script. I'm currently trying to figure out a better detection for the browser's library plugin path, since it varies widely among different distros. For instance the Gentoo ebuild of firefox requires the plugins to either be in /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/plugins (which I had to create) or ~/.mozilla/plugins/ (which is far from optimal). Fedora 12 requires the plugin in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins-wrapped/ for instance.
I try this on Fedora 12. Supposedly it made a clean install (see the report below) However now Firefox doesn't launch nor I can make a call through Chrome. It still asks me to download that voice plugin. aboutlugins don't list anything related to these plugins.

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* Successfully installed *
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* Your gmail chat icon should now be a green videocamera
* gmail Call should now not ask you to install anything
If not check about : plugins
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TIPS

* Test call with echo@bot.talk.google.com

* If your webcam is upside-down then try:
LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libv4l/v4l1compat.so browser
video-chrome and video-chrome and video-chrome have been provided as scripts for your convenience (in /usr/bin)

* If Call phone and voice chat work but video chat reports:
"A problem occured while attempting to access your graphics hardware"
Then your video driver dependencies are too old.
Try a fresh install of the latest release of your distro.

** Report problems with this script to:
** Report other problems to Google **

Last edited by gsever; 2010-08-28 at 18:21.