Howto: Configure Pidgin for Google Talk

[shantzg001]

There can be more issues with gtalk and pidgin, e.g., if you company blocks it. Here is a method to overcome this :
http://tech.shantanugoel.com/2008/09...-firewall.html

[asaturn]

there is a more official way of keeping Pidgin more up to date shown here:

http://www.pidgin.im/download/ubuntu/

[chiques]

Excellent! Thanks

[devilspirit]

did you built Pidgin from source? in that case you need a SSL Library, I used Mozilla's SSL Library, libnspr-dev, libssl-dev, and libnss-dev... not sure why those three worked together, but they did... maybe just a combination of two of them or not sure... but those are the libs I installed when I compiled and worked... cheers!

PS: If you need help with the source compiling, PM me and I'll help you step by step...

i'm getting messge like

username@gmail.com/host disconnected
ssl connection failed.
i checked force old port(5223)ssl
port 433

even port 5222 doesnt work


i'm behind a proxy sever and the proxy settings work well vth the web browser.

plz suggest some solution to this problem

[devilspirit]

My guess is that the necessary ports are being blocked by your firewall, proxy, or router.

In order to connect to Google Talk and start sending IMs, you'll need to enable TCP connections to talk.google.com on port 5222, or on port 443. From What ports does Google Talk require?

You can test to see if you can connect to talk.google.com, port 5222 with the following command in a terminal:

telnet talk.google.com 5222

A successful connection will look like this:

telnet talk.google.com 5222
Trying 72.14.253.125...
Connected to talk.l.google.com.
Escape character is '^]'.
^Connection closed by foreign host.

hi , i'm using pidgin on xubuntu.
the above settings work well and i got same result as u said. but the problem still persists
it shows ssl connection failed . i'm behind a proxy network. can u plz suggest some solution.

[dipspesh]

I had installed an earlier version on pidgin and made it to connect to the servers using the methods told here..but since it didn't support file sharing i upgraded to pidgin 2.6.1 and now i'm not able to connect to any of the servers(i.e yahoo and google )
these error messages are being displayed
for google->(Unable to find alternative XMPP connection methods after failing to connect directly.)
for yahoo->Unable to connect: Error resolving scsa.msg.yahoo.com:
No address associated with hostname

please help resolving this error!!

[kevdog]

Honestly -- I don't think pidgin works with google talk anymore but I could be wrong. I thought that capability was halted around Sept/Oct 2009.

[stephanecharette]

I don't think pidgin works with google talk anymore but I could be wrong.

Still works for me. I'm using 2.6.2 in Ubuntu 9.10. I doubt the Pidgin team would let support lapse very long for one of the biggest networks of users.

Stéphane

[skywalker_7421]

I ran gtalk on pidgin like this :

Step 1 : Checked which ports were open for me to connect to talk.google.com at console



As u see none worked, as i am behind a proxy.

Step 2: Installed latest pidgin available in my local repo (pidgin 2.5.5).

Step 3: Settings in account

Select the account --> Modify Account

Basic settings



Advanced settings



In addition, i played with Tools-->Preferences-->Network too. Well the final setting was following -



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[Aruz]

If you use google apps. Must be activated "Google Talk" on Google Apps.