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Finally comes a feature highly anticipated by linux and gmail users: Voice and video calls in Gtalk straight from the browser! Although this functionality could already be used from Empathy and other chat clients, it was not yet possible to do it directly from Firefox, Chrome, etc. |
The official blog of gmail He surprised us yesterday with excellent news: from now on, for Linux users the option of video and voice call is now available in Gtalk.
At the moment you can download a .deb package called google-talkplugin (for Ubuntu and Debian) and announced that the .rpm version will also be available soon for users of openSUSE, Fedora and others. (But with an alien command you can remove the package: P)
The browsers that are supported are the following: Firefox 2.0+, and Google Chrome. I have tested it with Chromium 7.0.498.0 and Firefox 3.6.9 on Ubuntu Lucid.
Note: If after installing the google-talkplugin and restart the browser, the voice and video call option still does not appear, try restarting the machine.
How to install on other distros (other than Ubuntu)
- Unzip the DEB
- Decompress the data.tar.gz that comes out of that previous DEB
- Put the three directories that appear (etc, opt and usr) in their proper places.
Note: Annubis, a reader of Very Linux, it also warns that when installing the package, Google reinstalls its repository "silently", checking if we already had it from previous installations of other components, and even adding a task in cron that checks if we have removed it to add it again. So you already know where to touch 😛 Maybe, using this method Ubuntu users can also remove the cron folders and so on and rearm a deb package that evade the need to reinstall Google repositories.
Great news
But it is only packaged as .deb 🙁
And for those of us who use RPM ??? (I use OpenSuse 11.3)
Does the SRC exist to compile it?
regards
Unfortunately, users using RPMs have to keep waiting. 🙁 However, as it says in the post, the soon release of a version with those features has been announced.
Cheers! Paul.
Hello Krafty! I have just included a method to install this package on other distros. Anyway, note that when installing the package the Google repositories will be added "silently". Perhaps by following this method that I just added you can find a way to install it without it happening (deleting the cron folders?)
Cheers! Paul.