Well I discovered that google talk was released for linux and that it was in aur, which translated into not having to futz with the deb/rpm files to figure out how to convert them to a proper arch PKGBUILD.
Okay.. beautiful. so.. let's install it.
packer -S google-talkplugin
(replace packer by your favorite aur package manager). google-talk depends on libnotify and pulseaudio so.. simple enough.
Okay, load up chrome or firefox, open up the plugins about page.
Excellent... now what? everything looks good.. I log into gmail, click on the cam icon and it tells me to go download the plugin I just installed... *angry face*. Well, that's not what its supposed to do.
Fine.. lets run this in terminal.. to see what's going on.
[000:040] Started GoogleTalkPlugin, path=/opt/google/talkplugin/GoogleTalkPlugin
[000:040] Waiting for GoogleTalkPlugin to start...
/opt/google/talkplugin/GoogleTalkPlugin: error while loading shared libraries: libssl.so.0.9.8: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
*** NSPlugin Viewer *** WARNING: unhandled variable 18 () in NPN_GetValue()
*** NSPlugin Viewer *** WARNING: unhandled variable 18 () in NPN_GetValue()
Okay.. so.. lets see what this plugin is doing:
ldd /opt/google/talkplugin/GoogleTalkPlugin
linux-gate.so.1 => (0xf772b000)
libX11.so.6 => /usr/lib32/libX11.so.6 (0xf75d5000)
libXfixes.so.3 => /usr/lib32/libXfixes.so.3 (0xf75d0000)
libdl.so.2 => /usr/lib32/libdl.so.2 (0xf75cc000)
libpthread.so.0 => /usr/lib32/libpthread.so.0 (0xf75b2000)
librt.so.1 => /usr/lib32/librt.so.1 (0xf75a8000)
libssl.so.0.9.8 => not found
libcrypto.so.0.9.8 => not found
libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib32/libstdc++.so.6 (0xf74ba000)
libm.so.6 => /usr/lib32/libm.so.6 (0xf7495000)
libgcc_s.so.1 => /usr/lib32/libgcc_s.so.1 (0xf747a000)
libc.so.6 => /usr/lib32/libc.so.6 (0xf732e000)
libxcb.so.1 => /usr/lib32/libxcb.so.1 (0xf7316000)
/lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xf772c000)
libXau.so.6 => /usr/lib32/libXau.so.6 (0xf7313000)
libXdmcp.so.6 => /usr/lib32/libXdmcp.so.6 (0xf730e000)
Hmm.. Okay.. libssl not found. I'm fairly sure I have openssl installed, though it seems I have 1.x. Arch Linux seems to be too new for its own good in this case.
Okay.. fine. Let's see what we can find.
packer -Ss openssl
which returns among other items: lib32-openssl-compatibility
pacman -S lib32-openssl-compatibility
Now we should have all the components that we need. I tried running it again, but it seems it still can't find library we just installed.pacman -Ql lib32-openssl-compatibility returns the path name where it will be installed.
Okay, it install the library in /opt/lib32/usr/lib which I'm guessing most apps aren't going to check. It also doesn't seem like it installed a conf file telling our system to look in that directory. Well, we can help it along a bit.
echo "/opt/lib32/usr/lib" > /etc/ld.so.conf.d/lib32-openssl.conf
ldconfig
Reload your browser....and amazingly enough.. google chat video and all works perfectly. Problems: This drove me up the wall on my arch linux OS for longer then I care to admit. open up alsamixer.. find your mic volume, and hit the spacebar to enable capture. *insert homer moment*
Many thanks :)
ReplyDeleteLooks like cpcgm handled the lib32-openssl issue. Now depends on (x86_64):
lib32-openssl-compatibility (AUR)
Also updated to: google-talkplugin 1.7.1
Glad to be of use :) That was my hack-ish fix, I'm sure there's a more proper way of doing this now (hopefully).
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