Gtalk Video chat in linux.

Yes. this is true.. that now I can use gtalk video natively on Linux without any third party software.

steps I did for getting on the Video.

Goto:
http://www.google.com/talk/

download gtalk video plugin from this page.

I got .deb file which is for debian system and I'm running slackware which expects .txz/ .tgz format..


you can go as :

extract the .deb file using tool ( like ark/ any other zip tool )
copy the data.tar.gz to / ( root )folder.

as a root:
cp data.tar.gz  /
cd /
tar -zxvf data.tar.gz

close the browser
open again and login to Gmail.. and you are on..

if you dont see video icon against your name in gmail. try run this command manually.
/opt/google/talkplugin/GoogleTalkPlugin


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“
fix it by installing Adobe Reader: its available in slackbuild.org , and then creating the symbolic link: cd /usr/lib && ln -s /opt/Adobe/Reader9/Reader/intellinux/lib/libcrypto.so.0.9.8 . 


However I got this running only on google-chrome.. and will check if this is running for firefox and other browser as well.
but as google-chrome is available for all the platform, it should be OK :)


cheers!!