Hello Friends,

I was waiting for this day eagerly, After Release of Google Voice & Video chat in DEB file i was waiting for Google Official RPM for Voice & Video Chat. As i was unable to found i have tried so many things, Fortunately some things works smoothly unfortunately some not. But Now No need to do any tricks for Installing Google Voice and video chat on Fedora and RHEL Linux, Because of Huge demand from Fedora & RHEL users Google It self released Official RPM for Voice & Video Chat so it feels very Nice.

Still this is the very quick release so some bugs or problems may be there but its very good to see google for releasing very fast.

Follow below procedure to install Google Voice & Video Chat using Official Google RPM

1. You need to be root for doing this procedure.

2. Download Official RPM from below link :-

http://www.google.com/chat/video

3. Once RPM Downloaded Just Execute below Command :-

rpm -ivh google-talkplugin_current-xxxx.rpm

4. If You face dependencies error then try to link your library files as per below instructions

Enjoy Google Voice & Video Chat on Fedora | RHEL Enjoy Open Source Enjoy Linux

Hello Guys,

As I have already posted that Google Voice and Video chat is available for Linux but Only for Ubuntu, Today i was googling for installing Google Voice and Video chat on Fedora | RHEL and RPM Based Linux.  So I Found 1 very nice howto on google helps itself. A very nice howto which shows us that howto install using DEB file. I am posting that with some modification.

Google Released Official RPM to Install using Official RPM follow this link :- http://blog.ask4itsolutions.com/2010/09/02/install-google-voice-video-chat-using-official-google-rpm-fedora-rhel-linux/

Perform following steps to install Google Voice & Video chat on Fedora | RHEL and RPM Based Linux

1. You need to be root for Doing this. So be as a root

2. Click Here to Download DEB File. Or Execute Below command on Terminal.

# wget -c http://dl.google.com/linux/direct/google-talkplugin_current_i386.deb

3. Move deb file to /tmp directory. Execute below command
# mv google-talkplugin_current.deb /tmp

4. Now Change your Directory to /tmp. Execute cd /tmp

5. Now Execute below command
# ar vx google-talkplugin_current.deb # This command will extract DEB file here.

6. Above command will install drivers, but as we don’t have exact RPM so we have to make link of some library files. Execute below commands
# cd /usr/lib
# ln -s ../../lib/libcrypto.so.1.0.0a libcrypto.so.0.9.8
# ln -s libssl.so.1.0.0a libssl.so.0.9.8

(non-Fedora distributions, and other versions of Fedora, may have different locations and version numbers for these libraries, but the same basic method should work.)

7. Now Again lets change our directory to /tmp where we have extracted DEB file. Execute command below
# cd /tmp
# tar xvzf data.tar.gz -C /

8. Now change your directory to /opt/google/talkplugin by executing command below
cd /opt/google/talkplugin

9. Type Below command
./GoogleTalkPlugin

If Everything is fine you will able to see two lines as below

./GoogleTalkPlugin: /usr/lib/libssl.so.0.9.8: no version information available (required by ./GoogleTalkPlugin)
./GoogleTalkPlugin: /usr/lib/libcrypto.so.0.9.8: no version information available (required by ./GoogleTalkPlugin)

Above lines are not errors its just warnings so Don’t worry.

By following this howto on some systems plugin will work on firefox and on some plugin will work on Google Chrome. Don’t know the reason but its only like that. Also I don’t say or not any surety that this will works for all.

I want to thank this post for showing a very nice way to install Google Plugin without RPM.

Source link :- http://www.google.co.uk/support/forum/p/chat/thread?tid=273c9ff21a1bbf53&hl=en

Enjoy Linux Enjoy Voice & Video Chat on RPM Based Systems

All comments accepted.

Hello Frineds,

This post is regarding New Major Release from Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Red Hat Enterprise Linux is a very stable product and very well in Market. This is a Great Product I Must say. As I heard that Red Hat going to release enterprise version 6. So I have installed it’s latest release Version 6 and beta 2. I know this is very early to say and in Future lots of things going to Improve.

Below is the some feature which i have noticed at first time installation.

Advantage As my Point of view :-

1. A Wonderful Graphic Installer. Completely Different from RHEL 5 ( Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5).

2. You will get a Network Manager to Configure your Network during Installation.

3. A Very nice package selection Menu.

4. Totem and Some audio Players and video players given into Media.

5. If you choose Server installation during Installation time. You will not get GUI screen.

6. As MTA Postfix is default instead of sendmail.

There is no disadvantage find as such. But You can read some below topics :-

1. If you are a Fedora user. Then you will find common GUI. You will not find any difference in graphic between Fedora 13 and RHEL 6.2 instead of RED HAT LOGO.

2. You need some what high configuration compare to RHEL 5 if you choose to install GUI.

3. Installation i find bit slow comapre to RHEL 5.

4. Disappointment for Sendmail MTA Users.

As I mentioned earlier in this post this is very early to say because it’s still beta but RHEL 6 is going to Rock………. Waiting for Mega Release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (RHEL 6).

Keep visiting this blog for may more posts about RHEL 6.

I hope you all guys like this post. Let me have your suggestion, You views on RHEL 6.2 if you have tested or used it. Even let me know if you differ from my point of view.

Waiting for your feedback Guys…….

All Comments accepted. Enjoy RHEL 6.2 Beta

Hello Friends,

This is happiness to all Linux users specially Ubuntu and Debian Users. Fedora & RPM supported Linux has to wait for some time.

Google released DEB file to Install Google Video Chat on Linux on Ubuntu. In Excitement of fast releasing Google Only Provided DEB files for Ubuntu and Debian based Linux. So Right now Google Video chat cannot be installed on RPM supported Linux. But Sure Google is right now on Process to release RPM very soon.

Below is the procedure to Install Google Video chat on Linux | Ubuntu

1. Click on Link below to Download Google Video Talk plugin
http://dl.google.com/linux/direct/google-talkplugin_current_i386.deb

2. Once Download finished, File is about 5.7 MB. To Install google talk plugin libglew 1.5 or libglew > 1.5 is required.

3. Just Double-Click on DEB file and Install it. If you are going to Install it with GUI then you don’t worry about Dependecies Ubuntu’s GUI Installer will take care of it.

4. Make sure you restart your browser to Use Google Video chat

To Install Google Talk Plugin Using Command, Follow below procedure :-

1) You need root privilege to Install DEB file.

2) Click on Accessories -> Click on Terminal

3) Change your directory where you have download DEB file.

4) Execute dpkg -i google-talkplugin-xxx.deb. If you are getting any dependencies problem Just Install those dependecies First then again execute this command.

5) Make sure you restart your browser to Use Google Video chat

Still waiting from Google to Release RPM very soon.

Enjoy Linux Enjoy Google Video Chat on Ubuntu | Debian Linux

Hello Friends,

Today I am going to show you how to for Installing & Configuring Gnome Gmail Notifier on Fedora 10, 11, 12,13 , Ubuntu & RHEL Linux.

There are Lots of Utilities available in Linux to get notifications about New Arrived mail into your GMail’s Mail Box. From that all Utilities i found Gnome Gmail Notifier is one of best Utilit for Linux Specially for Fedora 10, 11, 12,13 , Ubuntu & RHEL Users.

This utility is very easy to Install & Configure. There is not much to do. I am writing this how to for awareness that this kind of utilities are also available on Linux and its is not a resource hungry its very nice & very smooth utility. I am using it from Fedora 10 but in Fedora 13 it is amaizing speciall new version 0.10 of Gnome Gmail Notifier.

Why this utility?

As i mentioned above, There are lots of utility available for Gmail Notification but GMail Notifier for Gnome is one of the best utility for Linux Specially Fedora.

Features :-

=> You can Configure as many as Gmail Accounts into GMail Notifier

=> You can set timings for Checking your Gmail Inbox.

=> Two Very nice Notifications methods available.

=> You can also set Audio notifications for New Gmail Messages.

Now enough talks guys, Lets move to installation procedure. This is very simple and very easy but lets see how you can install it

To Install Gnome Gmail Notifier on Fedora Perform following steps :-

1) You need to be root to perform this installation.

2) Make sure you have got repositories with you. If you have got repositories with you then you can move to next step. If you don’t have repository skip step 3 and move to step 4.

3) Execute yum -y install gnome-gmail-notifier

4) You can download Download RPM from this link :- http://files.geekysuavo.org/notifier/

Install RPM using this command :- rpm -ivh gnome-gmail-notifier-xxx-xxx.rpm

5) That’s It. Gnome Gmail Notifier is installed.

In Next step we will learn how to Setting up GMail Accounts for Notification and How to start Gnome Gmail Notifier in start up.

=====> Setting up GMail Accounts

1) Once Gmail Notifier installed Click on Applications -> Internet -> Gmail Notifier

2) Once you click that You will see icon near by Sound Icon/Date & Time on Gnome Panel

3) Right click on that icon, Click on Preference.

4) Click on Add to add accounts, Click on Edit to edit existing Added Accounts, Click on Remove to remove added GMail Accounts.

5) Select duration to check mails. Minimum checking time you can specify is 1 minute and Maximum can be 60 Minutes.

6) If you select Display Notification for New Messages then whenever new mail comes to your INBOX while checking on that duration It will notify you by POP-UP.

7) If you select Display Notification for Inbox errors then whenever it tries to check INBOX while checking on that duration and if there is any error then It will notify you by POP-UP

Last option is for Audio Notification on New mail. If you have some different sound file and If you want to choose your Audio Notification on New mail arrival you can select your customize file for Audio Notifications.

=======> Setting up Gmail Notifier on start up

Perform Following steps to Configuring GMail Notifier for Start up

1) Click on System -> Preferences -> click on Start Up Applications

2) Click on Add

3) In Name field type, GMail Notifier (You can assign whatever you want)
In Command field type, /usr/bin/gnome-gmail-notifier
In Comments field, GMail Notifier (You can assign whatever you want)

4) Finally Click on Add, That’s it. Now whenever you reboot your Linux/Fedora Box and Login Gnome GMail Notifier will be available on Gnome Panel

To Install Gnome Gmail Notifier on Ubuntu 10.04 Perform following steps :-

1) You need to be root to perform this installation.

2) Make sure you have got repositories with you. If you have got repositories with you then you can move to next step. If you don’t have repository skip step 3 and move to step 4.

3) Execute apt-get install gnome-gmail-notifier

4) You can download Download DEB from this link :- http://files.geekysuavo.org/notifier/

Install DEB using this command :- dpkg -i gnome-gmail-notifier-xxx-xxx.deb

5) That’s It. Gnome Gmail Notifier is installed.

In Next step we will learn how to Setting up GMail Accounts for Notification and How to start Gnome Gmail Notifier in start up.

=====> Setting up GMail Accounts

1) Once Gmail Notifier installed Click on Applications -> Internet -> Gmail Notifier

2) Once you click that You will see icon near by Sound Icon/Date & Time on Gnome Panel

3) Right click on that icon, Click on Preference.

4) Click on Add to add accounts, Click on Edit to edit existing Added Accounts, Click on Remove to remove added GMail Accounts.

5) Select duration to check mails. Minimum checking time you can specify is 1 minute and Maximum can be 60 Minutes.

6) If you select Display Notification for New Messages then whenever new mail comes to your INBOX while checking on that duration It will notify you by POP-UP.

7) If you select Display Notification for Inbox errors then whenever it tries to check INBOX while checking on that duration and if there is any error then It will notify you by POP-UP

Last option is for Audio Notification on New mail. If you have some different sound file and If you want to choose your Audio Notification on New mail arrival you can select your customize file for Audio Notifications.

=======> Setting up Gmail Notifier on start up

Perform Following steps to Configuring GMail Notifier for Start up

1) Click on System -> Preferences -> click on Start Up Applications

2) Click on Add

3) In Name field type, GMail Notifier (You can assign whatever you want)
In Command field type, /usr/bin/gnome-gmail-notifier
In Comments field, GMail Notifier (You can assign whatever you want)

4) Finally Click on Add, That’s it. Now whenever you reboot your Linux/Fedora Box and Login Gnome GMail Notifier will be available on Gnome Panel

To Install Gnome Gmail Notifier on RHEL Perform following steps :-

To install on RHEL ( Red Hat Enterprise Linux ) is bit different then Fedora & Ubuntu :-

1) Below RPM must be installed with required version :-

• GLib 2.6.0
• GTK+ 2.12.0
• GConf 2.20.0
• Libxml2 2.6.20
• Libsoup 2.6.0
• Libnotify 0.4.2
• GStreamer 0.10.0
• Gnome Keyring 0.4.2

2) Download source package from this link :- http://files.geekysuavo.org/notifier/gnome-gmail-notifier-0.10.1.tar.bz2

3) Extract that file by using tar jxf gnome-gmail-notifier-xxx-tar.bz2

4) Change your Directory to gnome-gmail-notifier-xxx
cd gnome-gmail-notifier-xxx

5) Now Execute ./configure

6) Now Execute make

7) Now Execute make install

That’s it. Gnome GMail Notifier.

Enjoy GMail Notifications on your Desktop…..

All Comments accepted………….

Enjoy Linux Enjoy Open Source

Original Link :- http://notifier.geekysuavo.org/