Re: [LAU] Installing Google Voice Chat for Linux on Fedora instead of Debian

On Wed, August 25, 2010 5:32 pm, Niels Mayer wrote:
> Excited to see
> http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/08/call-phones-from-gmail.html , I was
> quickly disappointed to find the plugin only supported debian and was 32
> bit. However, I persevered and got it running on Fedora 12 x86_64 anyways.
>
> Solution:
> http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/chat/thread?tid=10ffe01c3a4779f5&hl=en&fid=10ffe01c3a4779f500048eaedc559f0f
>
> Google ought to hire someone that knows about App Development and Linux
> Audio and Fedora packaging (me?) to make the audio/video experience nicer
> for it's Linux users. In particular, not just blindly using ALSA devices
> for
> input that cannot possibly support audio capture, although I guess I'm a
> fringe-case since I don't use pulseaudio, since I've got KDE's phonon
> setup
> to do the right thing w/r/t all my audio devices, including the ones
> talking
> via Jackd. (
> http://ccrma-mail.stanford.edu/pipermail/planetccrma/2010-May/016886.html
> ).
> Also, not assuming every Linux user runs a debian/ubuntu distro would be
> helpful as well :-)
>

IIUC it's internal policy to develop their linux apps on ubuntu. that's
why they always release packages for ubuntu first before the other
distros.

> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Google Help <noreply@email-addr-hidden>
> Date: Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 5:13 PM
> Subject: Re: [Google Chat Help] Linux version now available!
> To: nielsmayer@email-addr-hidden
>
>
> NielsMayer has posted an answer to the question "Linux version now
> available!":
>
> FYI, adventures in Installing google talk on fedora 12 x86_64
>
> Linux installation doesn't distinguish between Fedora/OpenSUSE and
> Debian/Ubuntu linux systems, so you get a download for the wrong distro:
> -rw-r--r-- 1 npm npm 6926676 2010-08-25 15:47
> google-talkplugin_current_amd64.deb
>
> Which can be unpacked via ark(1) or file-roller(1) and contains a file
> data.tar.gz
>
> I installed the plugin for chrome/mozilla 64 bit by doing
> 132 16:01 cd /
> 134 16:02 sudo tar xvzf ~/Download/data.tar.gz ./opt/google/talkplugin
> 151 16:11 cd /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins
> ## (or /usr/lib ... for 32 bit)
> 152 16:11 sudo ln -s /opt/google/talkplugin/libnpgoogletalk64.so
> /opt/google/talkplugin/libnpgtpo3dautoplugin.so .
>
> now, about:/plugins shows the existence of the plugin:
>
> Google Talk Plugin (2 files)
> Version: 1.4.1.0
> Name: Google Talk Plugin
> Description: Version: 1.4.1.0
> Version:
> Priority: 1
> Location: /opt/google/talkplugin/libnpgoogletalk64.so
> Disable
> MIME types:
> MIME type Description File extensions
> application/googletalk Google Talk Plugin
> .googletalk
> Name: Google Talk Plugin Video Accelerator
> Description: Google Talk Plugin Video Accelerator version:0.1.43.3
> Version:
> Priority: 2
> Location: /opt/google/talkplugin/libnpgtpo3dautoplugin.so
> Disable
> MIME types:
> MIME type Description File extensions
> application/vnd.gtpo3d.auto O3D MIME
> .
>
> However, back in gmail. clicking on the "call phone" doesn't work....
>
> Issue:
>
> gnulem-230-~/Download> /opt/google/talkplugin/GoogleTalkPlugin
> /opt/google/talkplugin/GoogleTalkPlugin: error while loading shared
> libraries: libssl.so.0.9.8: cannot open shared object file: No such file
> or
> directory
>
> Solving:
>
> gnulem-236-/usr/lib> sudo ln -s libssl.so.1.0.0a libssl.so.0.9.8
>
> ## note the plugin seems to rely on 32 bit libraries being installed,
> which
> fortunately,
> ## they are even though I have x86_64 system as i've needed to run other
> 32
> bit binaries...
>
> Issue:
>
> gnulem-245-~> /opt/google/talkplugin/GoogleTalkPlugin
> /opt/google/talkplugin/GoogleTalkPlugin: error while loading shared
> libraries: libcrypto.so.0.9.8: cannot open shared object file: No such
> file
> or directory
>
> Solving:
>
> gnulem-247-~> sudo ln -s /usr/lib/libcrypto.so.1.0.0a
> /usr/lib/libcrypto.so.0.9.8
>
> gnulem-248-~> /opt/google/talkplugin/GoogleTalkPlugin
> /opt/google/talkplugin/GoogleTalkPlugin: /usr/lib/libcrypto.so.0.9.8: no
> version information available (required by
> /opt/google/talkplugin/GoogleTalkPlugin)
> /opt/google/talkplugin/GoogleTalkPlugin: /usr/lib/libssl.so.0.9.8: no
> version information available (required by
> /opt/google/talkplugin/GoogleTalkPlugin)
> socket(): Address family not supported by protocol
> socket(): Address family not supported by protocol
>
> restarting chrome... and it ...
> !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WORKS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>
>
> testing in a call, I'm using an ALSA device that doesn't have input by
> default
>
> gnulem-253-~> /opt/google/talkplugin/GoogleTalkPlugin
> /opt/google/talkplugin/GoogleTalkPlugin: /usr/lib/libcrypto.so.0.9.8: no
> version information available (required by
> /opt/google/talkplugin/GoogleTalkPlugin)
> /opt/google/talkplugin/GoogleTalkPlugin: /usr/lib/libssl.so.0.9.8: no
> version information available (required by
> /opt/google/talkplugin/GoogleTalkPlugin)
>
> socket(): Address family not supported by protocol
> socket(): Address family not supported by protocol
> socket(): Address family not supported by protocol
> ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:957:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) The dmix plugin supports only
> playback stream
>
> Issue:
>
> Given my default ALSA device is a dmix device, I now need to totally
> rework
> http://nielsmayer.com/npm/dot-asoundrc.txt to make this all useful....
>
>
> -- Nielsl
> http://nielsmayer.com
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