GGoogle chat vs Skype

[Aaron Konstam]

On Fri, 2011-09-23 at 13:19 -0500, Michael Cronenworth wrote:
> Darryl L. Pierce wrote:
> > Is the Google chat code native or is in running under WINE? And, if so,
> > do they have a native 64-bit version yet rather than requiring 32-bit
> > libraries?
> 
> Native Linux 64-bit binaries are available.
> 
> $ rpm -q google-talkplugin
> google-talkplugin-2.3.2.0-1.x86_64
> $ file /opt/google/talkplugin/libnpgoogletalk64.so
> /opt/google/talkplugin/libnpgoogletalk64.so: ELF 64-bit LSB shared 
> object, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked, stripped
> 
> Upon installation, the RPM adds Google's yum repository so you will 
> always be up-to-date.

The above installation is done automatically when you install from:
gmail.com/videochat
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