New user Bekir has just been registered and offers to build some bridges here 

I have installed Pidgin om my Pardus 2009.2 system but Pidgin does not start up   it stops opening and disappears from my desktop after a few seconds.

both gst-ffmpeg and gst-plugins-ugly are installed on my system

Yes Pidgin is in 2009.1 repo, I have added a direct link in the post above.

This might be of further assistance though perhaps a bit outdated:
http://www.google.com/support/talk/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=24073

And this:
http://lifehacker.com/5340632/pidgin-26-adds-google-talk-video-and-voice-support

At the Google website it only shows:
 32-bits .deb (Debian/Ubuntu)
 64-bits .deb (Debian/Ubuntu)
 32-bits .rpm (Fedora/openSUSE)
 64-bits .rpm (Fedora/openSUSE)

So I guess that is not yet available as tar.gz source package nor ported to a pisi package.

What I do know is that sometimes right issues get in the way and you can not start porting Google-owned software for distribution by yourself right away without the risk of legal action from Google.

So as far as the plug-in solution concerns I guess the answer is NO, but in a stand alone version (the software itself, not the plug-in) you might get things working in Pardus.

E.g. when you open the January issue (PDF) of the e-zine http://www.ozgurlukicin.com/e-dergi/

you notice although it is in Turkish quite some funny facts to notice, things that are there but you were not aware of and things that make Pardus life more fun.

So in this ezine I read about a PISI package present in 2009 repo that is the Java version of the classical boardgame Risk (also called risk in the repo), and I read about the PISI package Clementine which appears to be a fork of Amarok.

Those things are nice to know and be noticed of, however you will have to get after the news by yourself and it is not coming to you in english. Nvertheless, perhaps the good part is that it increases curiosity  

You want to know what these turkish texts means don't you ?  

Well I think even more withholding Pardus popularity is the lack of english-laguage based news / e-zines. The forums are ok, and some Pardus user communities (like in Germany or France or Sweden) do a terrific good job, but the most interesting pages "close to the fire" (i.e. the Official Pardus website, Planet Pardus and the http://www.ozgurlukicin.com/ website that provides daily news but in turkish only) do not provide english pages or are updated far less ferquently then the turkish ones. When you compare e.g. Planet Pardus to its turkish equivalent the difference is striking.

Now Google Translate can be your friend in some circumstances but it is not ideal.

In other words, marketing outside the native-Turkish coimmunity is not high on the priority list.

However investing in good quality operating systems can pay out in the end...!

The demand for far more translations of news to english has passed this forum already quite some times, but no one has yet jumped in to this...  

However popularity should not be an objective or goal by itself, should it?

The community (also in these forums) is ok and helpfull though still dependent on few people, hopefully in time more people that come across Pardus will stick to it and enter these forums, the more co-creation and co-experiences the better.

I guess that is possible by using Kopete, but I have no experience with that mnyself.

You might want to have a look in this turkish wiki page nd translate the page with Google Translate...

http://tr.pardus-wiki.org/NASIL:Kopete_ile_GoogleTalk_hesab%C4%B1_kullan%C4%B1m%C4%B1

From the images it looks like you have to choose to add a Jabber account and enter the Google (Talk) account data there

yeaj, but then as a spin-off of all work and effort put in (autonomic growth) and not as the result of a beauty-contest or a popularity test in which hundred-thousands of people echo each other as a group of sheep  

I agree and have already adjusted the News header above 

Mmmm, a ghost writer?Exact the same weird phrases a year ago in this forum.

I do not have the slightest idea what this posting is supposed to mean? Did I offend you in anyway or what.?

All I did, some time ago, was ask for some advice on how one can build a customsied linux in this case Pardus version, since I do not have the knowledge which components are requierd and which are not.

And then out of the blue you come with this posting. Who ware you and what is the reason that you start suggesting one should not harm another, what is te harm anyway? And what relates you to the subject Pardusman?

Your reaction gives the impression that I in some way really offended you? I really do not understand why?

Confused here. Please be more precise and concrete and clear up things.

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which makes us all curious for you to show us your desktop then? 

just post your snapshot here

Thank you !