Empathy-3.4.2

Introduction to Empathy

Empathy is an instant messaging program which supports text, voice, and video chat and file transfers over many different protocols.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.0 platform.

Package Information

Empathy Dependencies

Required

clutter-gst-1.5.4, clutter-gtk-1.2.0, evolution-data-server-3.4.2, Folks-0.6.9, gcr-3.4.1, gnome-doc-utils-0.20.10, gnome-online-accounts-3.4.2, libcanberra-0.28, PulseAudio-2.0, sound-theme-freedesktop-0.7, telepathy-farstream-0.4.0, telepathy-logger-0.4.0, telepathy-mission-control-5.12.0 and yelp-xsl-3.4.2

Recommended

Optional

Cheese-3.4.2, enchant-1.6.0, ISO Codes-3.30, Valgrind and udev-Installed LFS Version

Optional (Protocols)

telepathy-gabble (Jabber, Google Talk, XMPP), telepathy-haze (AIM, ICQ, Yahoo!), telepathy-salut (local network "Bonjour" - iChat-compatible) and telepathy-sofiasip (SIP)

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/empathy

Installation of Empathy

Install Empathy by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr \
            --sysconfdir=/etc \
            --libexecdir=/usr/lib/empathy \
            --disable-static &&
make

To test the results, issue: make check.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Command Explanations

--libexecdir=/usr/lib/empathy: This parameter is used so that the Empathy internal support programs are installed in the preferred location of /usr/lib/empathy instead of /usr/libexec.

--disable-static: This switch prevents installation of static versions of the libraries.

Contents

Installed Programs: empathy, empathy-accounts and empathy-debugger
Installed Directories: /usr/lib/empathy, /usr/lib/mission-control-plugins.0, /usr/share/empathy and /usr/share/help/*/empathy

Short Descriptions

empathy

is a GNOME instant messaging client using Telepathy.

empathy-accounts

is an accounts configuration dialog for Empathy.

Last updated on 2012-05-16 16:39:28 +0000