Gmail Video & Voice Chat Comes To Linux

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Gmail Video & Voice Chat Comes To Linux

For those that enjoy using Gmail for e-mail and chat but have been missing out on the video and voice chat capabilities when using this Google service, there's now official video and voice chat support available for Linux. Gmail video and voice support was added nearly two years ago and has been supported under Microsoft Windows and Apple Mac OS X, but released last night was the first Linux plug-in offering this multimedia support...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=ODUyOA

[DoDoENT]

So far I've found only .deb to download.

Is there any simple way of installing this deb file to Arch?

By 'simple' I mean that it doesn't include manual extraction of deb file and copying of extracted files to their designated location...

[nanonyme]

I suppose you could install dpkg?

[Vegar]

So far I've found only .deb to download.

Is there any simple way of installing this deb file to Arch?

By 'simple' I mean that it doesn't include manual extraction of deb file and copying of extracted files to their designated location...

Install alien and convert it like this:

alien --to-rpm the-file.deb

[Apopas]

After two years...

[gsacks]

It may be late, but at least they got it done.

[DeepDayze]

How well does it work?

[DeepDayze]

There should be a .tgz tarball so that it'll be a simple matter to make a PKGBUILD to generate a package for Arch

[Craig73]

Hasn't gmail voice and video been available for quite a while on Empathy and Pidgin?

[kernelOfTruth]

There should be a .tgz tarball so that it'll be a simple matter to make a PKGBUILD to generate a package for Arch

sure:

deb2targz