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When I try to download google video chat plugin, it tells me that my country is restricted from using their services , however I manage to do it using some software. Where is it installed in my computer so that when I do a clean install of Ubuntu's new version I just copy that to my new install?

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If you downloaded the .deb file, you can use the same file to install on another Ubuntu installation and if you installed it using a repository, the file is in /var/cache/apt/archives/.

To remove the Google video plugin on Ubuntu from the command-line:

sudo apt-get purge google-talkplugin

You will still have to kill the process manually:

ps auxw | grep Google | grep -v grep

The first number displayed is the process identifier for the Google Talk Plugin. Kill it with:

kill -9 #

Where # is the process identifier.

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  • google video chat plugin does not come in .deb form , what it does is that it checks where you are requesting it from and if it is a legal country it installs it automatically,I do have the google talk plugin in .deb form but not the video plugin
    – ali
    Apr 13, 2011 at 17:01
  • You mean the plugin used to enable video chat in gmail right in the browser, right? If yes, it is available as a DEB file. I download it from here google.com/chat/video/download.html here is my own 64bit deb file db.tt/8O8FuMR
    – Owais Lone
    Apr 16, 2011 at 17:37
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You can get the Google Video and Chat plugin from the page http://www.google.com/chat/video/ and you can use for Audio/Video PC to PC calls anywhere in the world.

You can also place Audio/Video calls with any Empathy user (the default IM/Audio/Video chat program in Ubuntu).

What is not available around the world is phonecalls to telephone numbers. It is currently only available to the US and Canada.

Note: Installing Google voice and video chat will add the Google voice and video chat repository so your system will automatically keep Google voice and video chat up to date. If you don't want Google voice and video chat's repository, do "sudo touch /etc/default/google-talkplugin" before installing the package.

And finally, how do you use the Google Talk plugin? Just log in to your GMail account, select a contact, you will be able to see that you can have a video chat (you get the option for video chat if they have a camera, or the video chat icon is greyed).

How do you verify that the Google Talk plugin is installed in Firefox? Simply visit in Firefox Tools->Addons->Plugins and look for the Google Talk plugin.

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if you are using google chrome then just type in the address bar

about:plugins

then on the top right side of the screen click details and that will show you the paths of all your plugins i'm sure there will be a way of doing this in firefox but i do not have it installed so i can't check

EDIT: just checked i do have firefox lol it works the same about:plugins but it doesn't show file paths but you can get the file name and use locate in the terminal to search and find its location

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Look at /opt/google/talkplugin directory.

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With the following command:

strings /opt/google/talkplugin/libnpgoogletalk.so | grep Version: | cut -d ' ' -f 2

If libnpgoogletalk.so is somewhere else, then change path of file!

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