Pidgin (nee Gaim) is an instant messaging client that lets you combine AIM, Yahoo and Google messages. I spent too long this morning trying to get it to recognize Gtalk.

Google has a page describing how to do it. That may work for you. It doesn’t work for everyone, including me.

Next step: Read the “troubleshooting” paragraph at Manast’s post on the topic.

At this point I started getting SSL error messages. But, after installing OpenSSL, it’s now working.

Yay for Open Source! [Tags: pidgin gtalk instant_messaging googletalk]

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