How to Download Voice Chat for Linux
Google's Voice and Video Chat plug-in supports Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. With the Voice Chat plug-in installed, you can make voice calls to other Google accounts from Gmail, iGoogle and Orkut and talk to people via your Web browser. You can even dial land-line and cellular telephones from your Gmail account inside your Web browser. Google provides plug-in software packages for the Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora and OpenSUSE Linux distributions.
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Instructions
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Open Google's Voice and Video chat download webpage (see Resources).
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Click "Install Voice and Video Chat."
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Select the download package for the Linux distribution you're using by clicking "32-bit .deb (For Debian/Ubuntu)," "64-bit .deb (For Debian/Ubuntu)," "32-bit .rpm (For Fedora/OpenSUSE)" or "64-bit .rpm (For Fedora/OpenSUSE)."
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Click "Install Voice and Video Chat."
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Open the software package with the Linux distribution's package installer by clicking "OK" in the file download window.
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Click the "Install" button in the software package installation window that appears.
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Authenticate yourself by typing your password and pressing "Enter" when prompted.
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Restart any open Web browsers by closing all their windows and reopening them.
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