How To Configure Google Talk on Pidgin / Gaim

By Angsuman Chakraborty, Gaea News Network
Friday, August 17, 2007

I faced quite some problems in configuring Pidgin / Gaim with Google Talk on Fedora Core 6. Here are the detailed steps for a no-brainer configuration of Pidgin for Google Talk:
1. Click on Account->Add/Edit menu
2. Click on Add button in the Accounts screen
3. Select XMPP / Google Talk as your protocol
4. Type your screen name which is your GMail login name without the ending @gmail.com
5. Type Domain as gmail.com
6. Ignore Resource
7. Type in your Password and check Remember password
8. Click on Advanced tab
9. Check Force old(port 5223) SSL
10. Check Allow plaintext auth over unencrypted streams (may not be required)
11. Change Connect port to 5223
12. Type talk.google.com in Connect server field
13. Click Save and you are done.

Note: Use the Gaim from Fedora extras. Do not install pidgin directly from other repositories.
Filed under: Fedora 7, Fedora Core 6, Google, Headline News, How To, Linux, Linux Migration, Web

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kambas
July 2, 2010: 8:18 pm

THANKS

Dianne
June 29, 2010: 3:00 pm

THANK YOU!!!

sarvesh chaurasia
May 10, 2010: 3:45 am

sir
it is not working so plz help me

Arno
January 29, 2010: 5:36 pm

Works fine for me thank!

Kaushal
May 3, 2009: 8:21 am

Thanx buddy for the information

gfxfree
March 4, 2009: 8:59 am

Thank you buddy, this really helpful

vinod Kumar shakya
March 1, 2009: 7:43 pm

Thank you very much. This help me realy very much. HAPPY HOLI to you!

Kev
February 3, 2009: 11:54 pm

Cheers for this. I’m on Ubuntu 8.10, but all my buddies are on Vista - poor fools! Works perfectly.

thankful_guy
January 28, 2009: 8:40 pm

Thanks man.

Ahmad Amr
January 11, 2009: 2:25 am

Thanks! That helped a lot! I have a google-based e-mail hosting, but not @gmail.com, it’s @fcih.net and the above instructions worked like a charm :)


JB
December 25, 2008: 7:13 pm

Thank you very much. A Merry Christmas to you! :)


Kawal
August 31, 2008: 3:52 am

Thank you buddy, that really helped.

Tinos
May 5, 2008: 8:17 am

Thanks for that. After a process of elimination I found the only advanced option needed was the talk.google.com bit (I’m on Windows XP).

saurabh
May 2, 2008: 5:35 am

port 443 connect in my case fine rather than 5223
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