Google video chat in Linux - Some dependencies
Another week of testing with the best Linux IM client "Pidgin". I could configure the Office communicator, Yahoo, MSN and gtalk. The best feature I can see in this, all chat windows can be accommodate with tabbed option in a single window. This is very good feature and this was the one, I was searching for a long time, when Jabber ( I was using Pandion client ) was switched to Office Communicator at my office. I think, I seen this tabbing option only in Pidgin version 2.7.1 onwards. Here, I tested 2 versions of Pidgin. Pidgin 2.6.6 My Ubuntu Lucid kernel is "2.6.32-22-generic" . This version of Pidgin comes by default with Ubuntu Lucid. What I had to do is, install the 3 dependencies. Install the following with the order it mentioned. 1. libmp3lame0 2. gstreamer0.10-plugins-multiverse 3. gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg 4. pidgin-PPA packages After these 4 items installed, I had tried to restart the services of pidgin, but was not successful. So...