How to get google talk to work with kopete

You can get google talk to work with kopete. I found this information in a slashdot post on August 24th 2005.

Create a new jabber account.

login: your.name@gmail.com
password: yourgmailpassword

Use protocol encrytiopn (SLL) - yes.
Allow plain-text password authentication - yes.
Override default server informatin - yes.
server: talk.google.com
port: 5223

Done! Welcome to google chat.

For debian linux users. If you get an error then chances are you do not have the qca-tls packet installed. It is easy to fix:

apt-get install qca-tls