Installation

Installation

Snap (test builds)

Tala is on the Snap Store's candidate channel only, for testing. There's no stable release yet.

sudo snap install tala --channel=latest/candidate

Then connect the permissions it needs, which aren't connected automatically:

sudo snap connect tala:password-manager-service
sudo snap connect tala:camera
sudo snap connect tala:audio-record

Tala needs the first one to save your sign-in, the second for video and the third for your microphone.

Building from source

You need Flutter and these development packages (Debian and Ubuntu names):

sudo apt install libayatana-appindicator3-dev libsecret-1-dev

Then:

git clone https://github.com/kz6fittycent/tala.git
cd tala
flutter build linux --release --no-tree-shake-icons

The app is build/linux/x64/release/bundle/tala. To add it to your application menu and give it its icon:

tool/install-desktop.sh

Keep that flag, because without it the release build's trimmed icon font can lose an icon. The build downloads a prebuilt libwebrtc and stops if its checksum doesn't match.

Tala also uses notify-send for notifications and pw-play for the ring tone at run time.