Googletalk Under Wine

[hannah187]

Ok I now have installed Empathy through Synaptic and all the dependencies. However when I start Empathy, I get, "No accounts Configured:
To add a new account, you first have to install a backend for each protocol"

Would appreciate a suggestion what I need to do. Please treat me as a novice Linux user.

[Triscuit713]

You have to install the appropriate plugins. Install telepathy-gabble. This will allow empathy to sign in to Jabber and Gtalk accounts.

To enable voice, install telepathy-stream-engine (or something to that effect, I can't remember the exact name).

[dRock1286]

Pidgin works just fine with gtalk...why not use that?

[programmer8922]

Pidgin works just fine with gtalk...why not use that?

Because he/she wants to use gtalks voice functions and at this time pidgin doesn't not support VoIP.

[hannah187]

I think I live another day..cheers guys

[hannah187]

thanks a ton for all the advices. Now I am able to use Empathy to connect to Googletalk and can chat. However there is no sign of mic. I do not see any button saying call. Fact is I can chat but not able to call. What's next. Anyone..
cheers

[Triscuit713]

Are you using Ubuntu Hardy Heron?
Did you add the appropriate repositories (i.e. you are not using the default Empathy available in the regular Ubuntu repositories)?
Did you install telepathy-stream-engine?

These questions aren't meant to be demeaning; I am just attempting to double check your steps.

[whyette]

Skype. Go to their website and download the Ubuntu version, and it should work pretty much immediately. It's a .deb, so install should be really easy. I'm testing that on my 64-bit machine now. It won't install for me, because it's an i386 architecture, and my 64 isn't happy about that. If you use a 32-bit, like you said, it will probably work.

[Triscuit713]

This thread is about VOIP using Gtalk/Jingle. Skype is not compatible with Jingle.

[hannah187]

Are you using Ubuntu Hardy Heron?
Did you add the appropriate repositories (i.e. you are not using the default Empathy available in the regular Ubuntu repositories)?
Did you install telepathy-stream-engine?

These questions aren't meant to be demeaning; I am just attempting to double check your steps.

hey thanks for asking..and totally understand that you are cross checking..
You are right ..I have installed default empathy from Hardy repository. Telepathy-stream-engine 0.4.0-2 is also installed from the repository. And so is telepathy-mission-control, telepathy-gabble,


And please understand I am not trying to run Skype and do use Pidgin. I like to get connected to Googletalk engine and do voice talk (VOIP) through my Hardy.

Thanks a lot to all the contributors.