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May 24, 2007

Setting up Google Talk in Pidgin

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]

Posted by D. Weinberger at May 24, 2007 11:02 AM

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Note: No Voice interop yet. It's all text only. Sigh.

Posted by: Julian Bond | May 24, 2007 02:24 PM

Well its easy, use the same thing as the google page told you, and go on Advance tab (where you add your info) and put talk.google.com as the Connect Server, have fun

Posted by: AcADIeN | June 27, 2007 02:14 PM

sigh. I hope voice comes out soon

Posted by: Shreyas Potnis | July 22, 2007 09:56 AM

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