Comments on: Using Google Talk with kopete

By: Frank Spychalski

Frank Spychalski — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 07:57:27 +0000

Then do what the message suggests - wait for the user to come online

By: Sameer

Sameer — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 15:16:53 +0000

i am not being to do it. Install was successful. but the error: ” This user is not reachable at the moment. Please make sure you are connected and using a protocol that supports offline sending, or wait until this user comes online.”

By: Frank Spychalski

Frank Spychalski — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 07:15:47 +0000

@Masroor: yes this sounds like a network problem, sorry can’t help you with that…

By: Masroor Hussain

Masroor Hussain — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 18:07:20 +0000

I can’t connect via both 443 and 5223 ports on both gmail.com and talk.google.com.
I think my firewall is blocking this thing moreover I can’t ping talk.google.com from my computer.
I am using Gentoo

By: yoya

yoya — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 07:34:04 +0000

Thx a lot.
It’s ok for me with Kopete 0.12.7 on Ubuntu 8.04.

By: Sendhil

Sendhil — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 09:31:56 +0000

Thanks a lot!

Excellent instructions

Have a great day!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 21:07:35 +0000

Awesome! Thanks for the tip!

By: John Malkovitch

John Malkovitch — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 16:03:02 +0000

nice

By: Frank Spychalski

Frank Spychalski — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 06:49:02 +0000

Good to know that Google finally added kopete to their list of clients… thanks!

By: Joe

Joe — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 20:08:33 +0000

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!

By: rach

rach — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 20:35:39 +0000

thanks for that! so helpful!!! I could have never done that by myself!

By: Frank Spychalski

Frank Spychalski — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 15:36:11 +0000

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…

By: Arnd Bergmann

Arnd Bergmann — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 13:02:18 +0000

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’.

By: Frank Spychalski

Frank Spychalski — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 11:39:30 +0000

Hi vasanth,

did you read my response to vijay? did you try what I suggested?

By: vasanth

vasanth — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 07:56:41 +0000

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

By: Frank Spychalski

Frank Spychalski — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 07:04:20 +0000

@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