Google Talk support

Adding an account

In order to configure your Google Talk account in Kopete, follow this steps.

First you will need to add a Jabber account: Settings -> Configure... -> Accounts. There, choose an identity and press "Add Account..." in the right column. A service list will be displayed, and you have to choose "Jabber", and then press "Next".

In the first tab you have to enter your complete Google Talk address and password.

Then go to the Connection tab, and check "Use protocol encryption (SSL)", "Allow plain-text password authentication" and "Override default server information" checkboxes. Then set server to "talk.google.com" and port to "5223". If you are behind a firewall and can't connect to the 5223 port you can use the 443 port (standard SSL port).

If you want to enable voice chat, go to the Google Talk tab and check the checkbox you'll find.

Read more about Kopete Google Talk voice chat support here.

You may need to restart Kopete to get the connection to work if you are editing an existing account.

QCA

Kopete Jabber uses a library called QCA for encrypted connections as used by Jabber. Kopete has an internal copy of this library but your distribution may have separated it out. If so, make sure you have QCA installed. This may be called "libqca1-tls".

Information on QCA for various distributions:

SUSE: the package is called "qca" but is installed by default along with Kopete.

Debian: the package is called "qca-tls". You may also need the libqca2-plugin-ossl package.

Fedora Core 4: the package is called "qca-tls" and is available via yum from the Fedora Extras repository.

Gentoo: the package is called "app-crypt/qca-tls" for KDE 3.5, and "app-crypt/qca-ossl" for KDE 4.0.

Mandriva: just install "libqca1-tls"

Slackware: install qca-* packages from www.linuxpackages.net and then run ldconf as root.

Kubuntu: the package is called "qca-tls" and is installed by default with Kubuntu 7.10, but requires manual installation with Kubuntu 8.04.

The qca-tls plugin can also be compiled from source code which can be obtained here. The required file is qca-tls-1.0.tar.bz2 (qca-1.0.tar.bz2 is not the plugin which Kopete needs but the library).