Since a few days, Google has this great feature that allows you to dial land lines from your gmail account. Unfortunately, they are only shipping a Linux client for Debian/Ubuntu. I'm using a custom repository with a lot of custom-build RPMs, and I really don't feel like switching away from RedHat-style for servers and clients.
How to use the .deb file on Fedora?
- First, go to gmail and click on the "call" icon in the left sidebar
- Download the .deb file offered. I use x86_64, so I get the file google-talkplugin_current_amd64.deb
- Start a shell
- mv [filename] /tmp
- mkdir /tmp/googletalk
- cd /tmp/googletalk
- now, extract the file: ar vx ../google-talkplugin_current_amd64.deb
- you get 3 files, control.tar.gz data.tar.gz and debian-binary
- extract data.tar.gz: tar zxvf data.tar.gz
- I don't want the google crontab, which of course is debian-based, so I only copy relevant files: cp -R opt usr /
Now, on a Debian based system, we would be ready. But on Fedora, some lib versions are incorrent. Link to the correct files:
- cd /lib
- ln -s libssl.so.1.0.0a libssl.so.0.9.8
- ln -s libcrypto.so.1.0.0a libcrypto.so.0.9.8
Restart Firefox. Now you're done.
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