procedure to install tapioca (gtalk alternative software)

I'm on Ubuntu 7.04 and tapioca is not part of it. So installing it would require manual steps. I guess this apply to Ubuntu 6.06 too, but I cannot verify it.
If you want an easy way to have Google Talk in Ubuntu 6.06, you could use Gaim which is installed by default (check the Gnome menu "Applications" -> "Internet" -> "Gaim internet messenger").
Google provides the necessary steps to configure Gaim with Google talk: http://www.google.com/support/talk/bin/answer.py?answer=24073

If you still prefer tapioca, let me know, I can try to see how to install it :-)

PS: just for my curiosity, what language would you like to see implemented in Ubuntu? You forgot to mention it...

Sorry, I have had a second thought on your issue. Perhaps what you wanted is to be able to use the voice facility (VoIP) of gtalk under Linux.
Tapioca is just a framework that allows that, and actually, the libraries for this framework are in the universe repository of Ubuntu 7.04. They do not seem to be in Dapper (Ubuntu 6.06) or Edgy (Ubuntu 6.10) repositories...
However, to have a graphical user interface (GUI) to use is another matter. There seems to be two contenders:
  * Colligo: http://codeposts.blogspot.com/ however, not yet released, only screenshot teasers are available
  * Landell: http://sourceforge.net/projects/landell/ still in version 0.2 and was not updated since last August

Neither are in the Ubuntu repositories, however an Ubuntu package (.deb) is available for Landell.

Other IM that support or will support voice capabilities with gtalk (http://fossvoip.blogspot.com/2005/12/google-jingle-and-jabber.html):
  - Psi (http://psi-im.org), however still experimental, check: http://psi-im.org/wiki/Jingle_branch
  - Pidgin (ex-Gaim, http://www.pidgin.im/) should support in a near future the library jingle... however, no clear confirmation
  - OpenWengo (or WengoPhone, http://www.openwengo.org/) support for voice with gtalk is planned (but no date yet)
  - Ekiga (http://www.ekiga.org/) jingle is not planned even for the next release: http://blog.ekiga.net/?p=55#comment-7960

If you are just interested with voice capabilities without necessarily compatibility with gtalk voice client, then you could look at this two alternatives:
  - OpenWengo (or WengoPhone, http://www.openwengo.org/)
  - Ekiga (http://www.ekiga.org/)

Hello Huygens,
Thanks for your promptly reply. The language i m going to implement ubuntu is Myanmar (Burma). The country is located in South East Asia. Most existing Myanmar fonts use the Windows 1252 Code Page encoding, but substitute Myanmar glyphs in place of the English (Latin) glyphs. The unicode system is in the developing progress. For more detail please read www.thanlwinsoft.org
Almost users are windows users. But I believe most of them have to migrate to linux for a reason :-). I would like to be ready to assist them when the time come.
So, as i mentioned almost ppl are using gmail and gtalk it would be a good help to prove them that linux is not very much different from windows, when gtalk compatible program is working on it (i mean VOIP).

Hello Huygens,
Now I could Install tapioca and kopete. The problem now is with connection.
1. Tapioca don't go beyond the login process. (it only shows logging in message but never reach the chat window)
2. Kopete report : There was a connection error: Operation is not supported.
I doubt that my ISP block jabber protocol service, for the same case appear in Gaim. In gaim I could login to MSN account but not gmail too.
I think I should only wait for GOD timing. :-)

Thanks Huygens, that solved my question.

Snip, sorry not to have come back to you earlier. My work is quite demanding this days and as it feels like summer outside, I am much less on my computer these days...
How did you solve your problem then? Did you use Psi?

I am happy that it is working for you now :-)

Dear Huygens
My problem is not totally been solved. But when I look back at the title of
my question, I start with ¨Installation procedure for tapioca¨. As I can
install it now I think I better approved that it has been solved. Now I m
still having the problem with connection. For good reference to others I
better Open a new question relevant to connection problem.
Sincerely
Snip

On 5/8/07, Huygens <email address hidden> wrote:
>
> Your question #5530 on kdebase in ubuntu changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/kdebase/+question/5530
>
> Huygens posted a new comment:
> Snip, sorry not to have come back to you earlier. My work is quite
> demanding this days and as it feels like summer outside, I am much less on
> my computer these days...
> How did you solve your problem then? Did you use Psi?
>
> I am happy that it is working for you now :-)
>

Sad to hear it :-( perhaps once you have created a new ticket, you could post here the link. So that other people that see this answer can follow up if it is not working for them too.