How to Install Google Talk on Wary 5.3

[watchdog]

Starting with a new frugal install I first installed Seamonkey 2.23:

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=90882

I upgraded glibc by installing libc6_2.11.3-4_i386.deb:

http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/libc6

Now open with geany /etc/profile and change "LC_COLLATE=en_US" with "LC_ALL=C".
I rebooted. Now you could also install the latest firefox, as you prefer. Then I installed libstdc++6_4.7.2-5_i386.deb:

http://packages.debian.org/wheezy/libstdc++6

Then in console:

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cd /usr/lib
mv libstdc++.so.6 libstdc++.so.6.old
ln -s ./i386-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6.0.17 libstdc++.so.6.0.17
ln -s libstdc++.so.6.0.17 ./libstdc++.so.6
mv libstdc++.so libstdc++.so.old
ln -s libstdc++.so.6.0.17 ./libstdc++.so

From:

https://www.google.com/tools/dlpage/hangout?hl=en-gb

download the google-talk plugin 32 bit deb package and install it.

Done. I suggest to update gtkdialog, too. I used:

http://distro.ibiblio.org/quirky/pet_pa ... 3-i486.pet

This HowTo could also work in puppy 4.3x but I have not yet tested it.

EDIT: I confirm. The same procedure works for puppy 4.31. The good news is that this glibc upgrade does not break pmount.

[mcewanw]

Though I've had google talk plugin working in some Puppies it has generally had a problem in that CPU usage tended to skyrocket whilst it was in use. A side result of that has been that the mouse cursor has often become very slow and jerky to the extent that mouse navigation became almost unusable. Google talk seemed to work okay in that scenario, but the rest of the system became virtually frozen and needed to kill X or reboot to get everything back to normal (or wait for ages to eventually get out of google talk).

EDIT

It would be great if google talk is working efficiently now since something was clearly wrong before (under MS windows it doesn't use too much CPU). It is one of the few things that just haven't worked well for me using Puppy and an important one.

I'm wondering therefore if you have any slowdown or high CPU effects whilst google talk is running in the configuration you are trying in Wary?

[watchdog]

Though I've had google talk plugin working in some Puppies it has generally had a problem in that CPU usage tended to skyrocket whilst it was in use.

EDIT

It would be great if google talk is working efficiently now since something was clearly wrong before (under MS windows it doesn't use too much CPU).

I have not this problem. I use google-talk to phone voip and it works in every puppy I used. Something wrong in your install or hardware-related problem I suppose. Try to launch the browser in terminal and see if there are error messages.