Google-Talk-VideoChat

[Magruder]

Good news. Installed the pet, and I can make calls from Gmail in Firefox.

Is there any way to tweak this pet to work in Opera also?

[seaside]

Good news. Installed the pet, and I can make calls from Gmail in Firefox.

Is there any way to tweak this pet to work in Opera also?

Magruder,

Great it's working - I have no idea what happened to the first post- strange indeed and thanks for reposting the URL for the pet.

I don't use Opera, but I downloaded and installed it. Then installed the Googletalk-ff.pet and added the following code which links the Opera plugin section.

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ln -s /opt/google/talkplugin/libnpgoogletalk.so /usr/lib/opera/plugins/libnpgoogletalk.so
ln -s /opt/google/talkplugin/libnpgtpo3dautoplugin.so /usr/lib/opera/plugins/libnpgtpo3dautoplugin.so

You can highlight the code and paste into a terminal to run the links.

Opera did not crash and the googletalk plugin appeared in the Opera URL line under "about:plugins"

I didn't actually test a call, but it should work.

Cheers,
s

[Magruder]

Seaside,

Thank you. I created the symlinks by copying your code into rxvt.

(This is a good place to repeat how you paste something into rxvt: control-v doesn't work. Use shift-insert instead.)

About:plugins does show that the GoogleTalk plugin is installed. But... it doesn't work. When you click 'Call phone' in Gmail, the popup still says 'please install plugin'.

I went to the folder that the symlinks point to and saw that there's another item, called GoogleTalkPlugin. I made a symlink for that also. Closed and restarted Opera, but that made no difference.

Rebooted, because I couldn't think of anything else to try. Still no difference.

So I started Firefox, and called my mom. She doesn't know anything about this stuff but she's always glad to hear from me.

If you have any ideas, let me know. In the meantime, it works just fine in Firefox.

[seaside]

Magruder,

I thought the hard part was getting the Opera browser to install the plugin.

It seems Google does some checking and isn't just looking for a Firefox or other officially supported browser installation.

My only other thought is to nose around the Ubuntu or Google-talk forums to see if anyone has found a way to use the Google-talk plugin with Opera on linux.

Cheers,
s

[tlchost]

Theinfamousj,
Here's how to try out new programs without risking another Great Crash.

An alternative would be to use a bootable usb. I simply copy the working save to one with test is the name and use the test version. If the test version works....it becomes the working save file.

Takes a bit more time...but prevents the Great Crash.

Thom

[kscrim]

I'm having some serious issues with getting Google Video/Voice to work with my install.

Puppy 4.2 is fresh as of two days ago with very little additions (except Firefox 3.6.12). Yet when I install the .pet OR .deb I'm getting dependency issues and relentless crashing in *all* browsers until the GVoice files are manually removed.

libCg.so and libGLU.so 1 are the unmet dependencies yet I see these files present with the .deb install.

Do I need to move the libraries to another folder? Should I give up and install Lupu?

Thanks.

[seaside]

kscrim,

I tried just about everything in pup431 and couldn't get it to work even though all deps and linking had been met. So, it doesn't surprise me that pup 42 doesn't work either.

I would go to Lupu for that application.

Cheers,
s

[weroflu]

i installed the two pets and the tar.

next boot up on 5.2 caused an error with xorg. i can't boot up puppy now.

how do i remove those pets?

[stiginge]

i installed the two pets and the tar.

next boot up on 5.2 caused an error with xorg. i can't boot up puppy now.

how do i remove those pets?

You must go to the puppy package manager, under menu>setup, click on the pet you want uninstalled, and that will be it.

[RSH]

You must go to the puppy package manager, under menu>setup, click on the pet you want uninstalled, and that will be it.

. This will only work after booting the puppy.

But

i can't boot up puppy now.

so this will not work.

I have not tested it but i would use another puppy, mounting the savefile and then deleting the files manually.

To make sure, all files have been manually deleted, i prefere to unzip the .pet (that shall be deleted) with unpackager-dragNdrop-1-i486-slxr.pet, to explore the directory structure of the pet and follow it in the linux system to delete all files manually.

To do this copy the .pet (that shall be deleted) to /root and drag & drop the pet on the unzipper_dragNdrop script, wich should be installed in /root. After drag & drop it will create a directory named like the .pet

A savefile (.2fs, .3fs) is a writeable file (the .sfs is different, only readable), so it should work and maybe easy to do - but first make a copy of your savefile.

Good luck

Edit: have you tried to change to xvesa, then reboot and after reboot leave X to the terminal (strg-alt-backspace) and run xorgwizard to set xorg again? Try it!

[Rope]

Is this compatible with FF 17 in slacko 5.6? I installed but can't detect camera.

[watchdog]

Is this compatible with FF 17 in slacko 5.6? I installed but can't detect camera.

I'm using the Google Talk plugin in wary 5.3 version 4.9.1.0 (now named Google Hangout). The latest should be:

https://dl.google.com/linux/direct/goog ... t_i386.deb

In old puppies the plugin needs glibc and libstdc++ upgrade. Read:

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 956#746956

In slacko 5.6 it should work without any upgrade. I have a uvc camera so no pain to get the camera recognized by the plugin. With some webcams you need v4l-utils. Install:

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=88124

It is compiled in slacko. Alternative:

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=91681

Then try to launch the browser in console with one of the following preload (try both):

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LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libv4l/v4l1compat.so firefox

or

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LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libv4l/v4l2convert.so firefox

If it works you would change your /usr/local/bin/defaultbrowser in:

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#!/bin/sh
export LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libv4l/v4l1compat.so
#export LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libv4l/v4l2convert.so
exec firefox "$@"

EDIT: I have attached my old Labtec webcam to my laptop with wary 5.3. That webcam I know needed v4l2convert.so preload from v4l-utils. I bought a new uvc webcam to substitute it beeing tired of preloading libv4l. I have found out that the latest Google Talk plugin does not need the libv4l preload: it autosearches for installed v4l-utils and I have got working the Labtec webcam without libv4l preload. Only install v4l-utils.

[watchdog]

I have realized that the latest google talkplugin at:

https://dl.google.com/linux/direct/goog ... t_i386.deb

is missing the google video accelerator plugin and does not work with my hardware. I use a workaround installing an old version of talkplugin which I have uploaded at:

https://copy.com/uXkicZWNhhee

which have the missing plugin. If you install both the old version and the latest, the latest will work. Tested in wheezy and wary.