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I am a newbie in linux. After installing ubuntu 10.04, I tried to install google talk in linux.
For this, I installed Wine and then downloaded the gtalk exe. But when I am trying to open the gtalk exe using Wine, it blocks the application with message it is not an exe and hence blocked.
Any suggestion is appreciated.

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As discovered, trying to install the Windows Google Talk installer under Wine is usually unnecessary and often fragile. Google Talk used XMPP, so native Linux clients (Pidgin or Empathy) will connect directly and are the supported, safer route; running random Windows .exe files under Wine also carries security and compatibility risks. and were correct to suggest native clients rather than forcing the Windows installer. (pidgin.im)

Because Empathy uses the Telepathy/Farsight stack and GStreamer for media, voice/video require the telepathy backends plus the appropriate GStreamer codec plugins. Install the Telepathy/XMPP backend and the common GStreamer plugin sets, then test again. Example (Lucid/10.04 era packages):

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install empathy telepathy-gabble libtelepathy-farsight0 python-tpfarsight \
  gstreamer0.10-plugins-good gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly \
  gstreamer0.10-pulseaudio pavucontrol

If you already have gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg and see problems, try the Empathy FAQ notes on that plugin. (help.ubuntu.com)

For the one‑way audio you reported (friend hears you but you can’t hear them): verify system sound first (System → Preferences → Sound or play a known sample), then run pavucontrol while a call is active to inspect per-application input/output routing and levels. Restart PulseAudio if things look stuck (pulseaudio --kill then pulseaudio --start). One‑way audio is often caused by missing decode plugins or by NAT/firewall issues breaking the RTP media path (STUN/ALG/NAT behaviour); try an echo test contact to confirm loopback. (help.ubuntu.com)

Practical notes: do not run Wine as root, don’t rely on making the .exe executable to make it work, and if problems persist run empathy from a terminal and capture the debug output (Telepathy/Farsight/GStreamer logs) to narrow whether it’s a codec, PulseAudio routing, or NAT issue. ’s chmod hint won’t fix protocol/codec gaps; ’s caution about Wine is well founded.

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Member Avatar for lionking_timone

wine may harm your system because it allow the exe to run and virus attacking chances increases, so avoid wine n search for an alternative.

Member Avatar for joejoe92

you could use pidgin and sign in to your google account from there. pidgin accepts all different types of protocols (e.g. msn, gtalk, aim, etc)

Member Avatar for JasonHippy

Empathy is another program on Ubuntu which also uses several different chat protocols.

Up in the top bar of 10.04 and 10.10, there is an image of an envelope.
If you click on the envelope, a context menu will pop up and there will be an entry in there that says 'chat' (or 'set up chat accounts' if you haven't used it before)

If you click on this it will start Empathy and you can set up any chat accounts you have. If you've already got some chat accounts set up, you can simply start Empathy, add a new account and enter the details for your google account. Once that's done, you can chat to any of your online contacts on google chat... simple!

Empathy is also integrated into the desktop. Once you've started Empathy you can set your online status (available, away, offline etc) from the top bar of the desktop too!

Member Avatar for appusachin

Give executable permissions to googletalk-setup.exe file by

sudo chmod 755 googletalk-setup.exe

Try installing googletalk-setup.exe with wine in ubuntu ... gtalk will be installed for ubuntu but you will endup in getting run-time issue for gtalk

Member Avatar for beth22

Why do you need to install gtalk when you have a lot of choices?
Like Pidgin, Empathy, Gmail Gtalk Widget, or like Meebo.

Member Avatar for java_programmer

Thanks buddies for your suggession. Based on your suggession, I am using Empathy as my chat client and I am really enjoying it as I can login to my multiple client at the same time. But now I am facing a problem. I can't voice chat like the same way I do in Yahoo msgr or gtalk. When i am trying to call friend from Emptahy, the friend can hear me, but I can't. Do I need to install any plugin for the voice chat? I guess google or yahoo doesn't have any plugins for voice chat in linux.

Member Avatar for beth22

Thanks buddies for your suggession. Based on your suggession, I am using Empathy as my chat client and I am really enjoying it as I can login to my multiple client at the same time. But now I am facing a problem. I can't voice chat like the same way I do in Yahoo msgr or gtalk. When i am trying to call friend from Emptahy, the friend can hear me, but I can't. Do I need to install any plugin for the voice chat? I guess google or yahoo doesn't have any plugins for voice chat in linux.

Please take a look at this article:
http://bit.ly/stjUBP

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