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Google has extensive information how to use Google Talk but no info for kopete users like me. This is a step by step description, how to configure kopete.
First, you might need to install an additional package called tca-tls or similar, if it’s not already present. It seems every distribution has a slightly different name for the same thingy:
| package name | |
| Debian | qca-tls |
| Fedora Core 4 | qca-tls |
| Gentoo | app-crypt/qca-tls |
| Mandriva | libqca1-tls |
| SUSE | qca |
| Ubuntu | qca-tls |
When you have installed this package, the most difficult part is probably over, the actual setup is pretty simple:
- Settings->Configure
- New
- Next
- Select Jabber
- On the first tab enter your account information
Basic Setup Jabber Id: [xxxx@gmail.com] [ ] Remeber Password whatever you prefer Password: [xxxx] - On the second tab enter
Connection [x] Use protocol encryption (SSL) [x] Allow plain-text password authentication [x] Override default server information Server: [talk.google.com] Port: [5223]
enjoy …
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Technorati Tags: GoogleTalk, gtalk, kopete
Tanks for the tips !
Yep, this info ROCKS! Thanks for taking the time to put it up.
-Nick
Amazing instructions… Just what I needed to get it working.
Thank,s
Thanks a bunch for the info. It has been on my todo list for the last few months.
yup! once again, big thanks!
mahalo
i’m wondering if this means that the authentication info is actually sent clear text…on their site, google says that never happens, so I’m not sure what happens.
Hi Eric, you have to enable “Use protocol encryption (SSL)”, otherwise it won’t work (just checked it). Therefore no authentication information is send unencrypted, even if you wanted to.
Congratulations and thanks, this info is quite clear and to-the-point, I’d seen another blogs where the info is loose. However you post it as “do this, do that, done…” and I think it’s quite great.
Regards,
According to http://wiki.kde.org/tiki-index.php?page=Google+Talk+support it would be change server from “talk.google.com” to “gmail.com” if you got the following error:
The certificate of server gmail.com could not be validated for account @gmail.com: The Certificate Authority is invalid.
I’ve had this message and changed server, but it isn’t work =(
Yuriy, I tested setting up an account 2 minutes ago. For me it worked exactly as I described it, using kopete 0.12.3.
I think the wiki page refers to a problem with voice chat, but I’m not sure.
I had the same problem as Yuriy. Simply use the server talk.google.com and when you get the error message click on continue. That did the job for me.
Sounds reasonable. When I tested the setup for Yuriy I removed my account and added it again so kopete probably remembered me clicking continue before…
Thank you very much from Italy for your instructions!
In response to the person who was saying you need to change the server “talk.google.com” to “gmail.com”, I have tried it with it set on gmail.com for the longest time and could never get it to work, and when I changed it to talk.google.com it finally connected. Kudos to Eric. Thank you from Canada.
Hi, thanks for the tips.
I have finished setting up an account but it doesn’t work for me
I get a connection error saying:
“There was a connection error: Operation is not supported.”
I have the necessary package (qca-tls) installed on my computer.
Any ideas?
Thank you.
@miku: sorry, no idea. Have you tried connecting with another client to confirm that it’s kopetes fault?
Hi Frank! Thanks for trying to help.
Yes, I did try connecting with gaim and could connect perfectly.
Same problem here. The weird thing is that it connects, but disconnects and gives me this error after 5 minutes or so.
There was a connection error: Operation is not supported
Using Kubuntu with Kopete v0.12.4. qca-tls is installed on my computer. Pidgin conneced fine for me.
Correction: it never connects (always connecting). However, I get the error and disconnect when I sign into Gmail (with Gmail Chat) or about every 5 minutes if I am signed in on Gmail Chat.
Got it solved using following settings:
Jabber ID: Gmail email address
Use protocol encryption (SSL): checked
Allow plain-text password authentication: checked
Override default server information: checked
Server: talk.google.com
Port: 443
Sorry for the long delay until I confirmed your comments: I was on vacation in Sweden far away from any internet connection.
qca-tls works on ubuntu 7.04 Thank you
thanks. was wondering why kopete wasn’t working.
for debian/ubuntu newbies:
sudo apt-get install qca-tls
then configure as above. works with feisty fawn, as mentioned.
After mocking around for a while with some IMs, I found Kopete quite good, but I have still the problem, that gtalk cannot be connected ’cause of an ‘error authenticating with the server: Login failed with unknown reason’.
qca-tls is new
used both port 5223 and 443
gmail.com and talk.google,com
removing and adding some times the jabber-gtalk
using ubuntu-gnome , could this be the problem… Kopete is written for KDE isnt it?
For all ideas I would be more than happy. Cheers
I just tried kopete with gnome with Debian Etch and it worked without a problem. But I have all the kde-libs installed. You are right, kopete is originally written for kde, but it should work with Gnome, too.
Have you tried using another IM to verify, that it is kopetes fault?
Or try starting it from a shell, perhaps you will get a useful error message…
Sure, I tried successfully gaim (beta), but by using otr it freezed. Trying afterwards Pidgit, a successful installation failed. So tried Psi (just jabber), Sim-IM (unusable) until finding Kopete as a solution. All is fine, but using kdewallet the outcome of the shell is not informative I guess:
~$ kopete
X Error: BadDevice, invalid or uninitialized input device 167
Major opcode: 144
Minor opcode: 3
Resource id: 0×0
Failed to open device
X Error: BadDevice, invalid or uninitialized input device 167
Major opcode: 144
Minor opcode: 3
Resource id: 0×0
Failed to open device
~$ kopete: Creating OtrlChatInterface
I didnt find out ’til now how to disable kdewallet. Sry.
My other jabber (in addition to gtalk) account is working fine.. so I do not see that this is a problem of kopete. Reinstalling kopete would be the last option… I thought about this as well. But I have the feeling that this will not change something (why should?). THanks for further help.
‘But I have all the kde-libs installed.’
Can you please tell me the kde-libs I need? Then I will install them using ‘apt-get install’. Synaptic wasnt helpful.
Sorry, no idea about your errormessage. I’ve seen similar messages a couple of times but I didn’t experience any crashes (yet?).
My kde-lib? Let’s see “dpkg -l | grep kde” returns this list of packages:
kde-i18n-de kdeartwork kdeartwork-emoticons kdeartwork-misc kdeartwork-style kdeartwork-theme-icon kdeartwork-theme-window kdebase kdebase-bin kdebase-data kdebase-kio-plugins kdegames kdegames-card-data kdelibs-data kdelibs4c2a kdepasswd kdeprint kdesktop kdewallpapers libkdegames1 libkdepim1a
hope this helps…
Percise instruction, but I needed to enter “my.name@googlemail.com” as the ID.
cheers.
@sopdu: that’s strange. I use first.last@gmail.com I just send an email to first.last@googlemail.com and the second adress worked, too. But I could not connect using …@googlemail.com in kopete.
Just came in to say thanks
Is it possible to transfer files through gmail through kopete?
I tried to configure my kopete with the foolowing:
Use protocol encryption: checked
Allow plain-text password authentication: checked
Override default server information
Server talk.google.com
But still whne i connect i get the following error:
There was a connection error: Host not found.
Please od give me a solution. I’m using RHEL 4. Also i’m not able to connect to yahoo nor MSN. I feel they might have blocked the proxy. Please give me a solution.
Thanks in advance,
Vijay
@Sudhang: yes, it’s possible and very easy: right click on the contact and select “Other Actions” -> “Send File” or right click on the bulb and select “Send File”.
@vijay: try to lookup and ping talk.google.com. The results should look like the one below. If not, you probably have a network problem.
$ host talk.google.com
talk.google.com CNAME talk.l.google.com
talk.l.google.com A 209.85.163.125
$ ping talk.google.com
PING talk.l.google.com (209.85.163.125) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from el-in-f125.google.com (209.85.163.125): icmp_seq=1 ttl=241 time=125 ms
64 bytes from el-in-f125.google.com (209.85.163.125): icmp_seq=2 ttl=241 time=125 ms
— talk.l.google.com ping statistics —
2 packets transmitted, 2 received, 0% packet loss, time 1004ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 125.478/125.538/125.598/0.060 ms
hi,
i am using RHEL ES i installed QCA TLS package named QCA-TLS-1.0.tar.bz2 successfully but after doing all the steps mentioned above when tried to connect it showed could connect to host, help me on this. reason may be my admin could have blocked, porblem is similar to vijay’s………..thanks in advance
Hi vasanth,
did you read my response to vijay? did you try what I suggested?
Apparently, you get into problems with the domain name in some countries, e.g. Germany and the UK. For legal reasons, google can’t use the gmail name there, so in order to get into your account from these countries, you have to use ‘googlemail.com’ or ‘googlemail.co.uk’ as the domain name instead of ‘gmail.com’.
Hi Arnd,
I don’t understand your statement. What problem are you refering to? Google cannot use gmail.de because it belongs to someone else, but they can still use gmail.com in Germany…
thanks for that! so helpful!!! I could have never done that by myself!
You can find some info about many IM clients’ support for Google Talk at google.com here:
http://www.google.com/talk/otherclients.html
And clicking on “Kopete” for information leads you to the necessary information to connect to google’s network:
http://www.google.com/support/talk/bin/answer.py?answer=57557
Hope you can add this information to your HowTo!
Good job!
Good to know that Google finally added kopete to their list of clients… thanks!
nice
Awesome! Thanks for the tip!
Thanks a lot!
Excellent instructions
Have a great day!
Thx a lot.
It’s ok for me with Kopete 0.12.7 on Ubuntu 8.04.