I tried the above steps on my Debian Etch 4.0 system. Installation went well. There was a little glitch. When I enter libjingle directory. I had to do “sudo make” and “sudo make install” for building and installing the library. simply doing “make” was giving me some error.

Also when I was running call program, it gave me following errors:

$ ./call
./call: error while loading shared libraries: libilbc.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

So I had to run “sudo ldconfig”. This fixed the problem.

My network is behind a proxy server and I need to give username and password before connecting to internet. I usually do it through HTTP_PROXY variable. Is there anyway I can pass these informations to the call program? I could not get it working. Please see following output:
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$ [Sat Jun 21|ghost@monster:call] ./call
JID: sw….ar@gmail.com
Password:
Logging in as sw….ar@gmail.com

Available commands:

roster Prints the online friends from your roster.
call Initiates a call to the friend with the given name.
quit Quits the application.

[Sat Jun 21|ghost@monster:call]$ roster
bash: roster: command not found
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Please help.

Regards,
Swagat

Just found this, thanks so much!

I have been searching this for several times since libjingle was released. and, this is the only one let me talk with my friend who is using gtalk under windows.

Linux acer 2.6.24-17-generic #1 SMP Thu May 1 14:31:33 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux

ubuntu hardy

beside the package you noticed in the passage
apt-get install libssl-dev libasound2-dev libspeex-dev

there is still something needed
apt-get install libglib2.0-dev libgtk2.0-dev libexpat1-dev

one thing I haven’t tested is to call from the example application. (it failed when i did this on my own box by calling to bkuyang_at_ekiga.net@gtalk2voip.com)

Great thanks!