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Google after some complains ultimately released an RPM based installer for their video and voice chat plug-in, this is a long awaited release, even more after the release of the .DEB package who made half of us angry!!

Well now you can get it at:
http://www.google.com/chat/video

Be aware that if you are using Fedora you might bump into the following problem (at least on the F13 x64 like me), after you install this package the link on th chat still states “Add video/voice conversation” which redirects you to the download page, this happens because despite the plug-in been successfully installed the nspluginwrapper that Firefox uses has a compatibility problem with this plug-in.

In the word of a Google engineer:
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We have investigated this issue and determined that it is caused by a compatibility problem with the “nspluginwrapper” program, which is used by default with Firefox on some RPM-based distributions. We are looking into ways to resolve this incompatibility. In the meantime, you can configure your computer to disable nspluginwrapper for Google voice and video chat, since there is no need to use it. (This is what Rick described above.)

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You can check the error thread here:
http://www.google.co.uk/support/forum/p/chat/thread?tid=140623cddb102907&hl=en

To correct the problem take the following steps:
1) Open /etc/sysconfig/nspluginwrapper in your favourite editor.
2) Find the line that starts with “export IGNORE_WRAP”
3) Add “:libnpgoogletalk*:libnpgtpo3dautoplugin*” to the end (without the quotes).
4) Save and close.
5) Remove the package and install it again.