Beyond Linux® From Scratch - Version 2013-05-17

Chapter 31. GNOME Applications

Empathy-3.6.3

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-7.2 platform.

Package Information

Empathy Dependencies

Required

clutter-gst-2.0.2, clutter-gtk-1.4.2, evolution-data-server-3.6.4, Folks-0.8.0, libcanberra-0.30, PulseAudio-3.0, telepathy-farstream-0.6.0, telepathy-logger-0.8.0, telepathy-mission-control-5.14.1 and yelp-xsl-3.6.1

Recommended

enchant-1.6.0 and ISO Codes-3.40, Nautilus-Sendto-3.6.1 and udev-Installed LFS Version or udev-extras (from systemd) (for GUdev)

Optional

Cheese-3.6.2, GeoClue-0.12.0, geocode-glib, libchamplain and Valgrind

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 \
            --libexecdir=/usr/lib/empathy \
            --disable-static &&
make

To test the results, issue: make check.

Now, as the root user: 

make install

Command Explanations

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

Contents

Installed Programs: empathy, empathy-accounts and empathy-debugger
Installed Libraries: None
Installed Directories: /usr/lib/empathy, /usr/lib/mission-control-plugins.0, /usr/share/adium, /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 2013-02-11 18:51:17 +0000