Empathy in Gutsy (The next GNOME IM client)
I just found that there’s a new PPA available in launchpad, this new PPA is telepathy related. A PPA (Personal Package Archives) as you may already know it’s a service provided by launchpad to developers that simplifies software distribution for ubuntu distros. In the other hand Empathy might be the next IM client in the GNOME desktop, it was proposed for inclusion some time ago, but enoght talking, lets how easy is to install this great program.
Add the following lines to your /etc/apt/sources.list
#telephaty ppa
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/telepathy/ubuntu gutsy main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/telepathy/ubuntu gutsy main
(You can do it from a terminal, wih something like this, sudo nano -w /etc/apt/sources.list)
Now update the repositories,
sudo apt-get update
And finally install Empathy,
sudo apt-get install empathy
And you are done, try out and report bugs!
Daeng Bo wrote:
I’ve used Empathy for a while now because it’s a lot lighter than Pidgin. It also has fewer networks. There’s no Yahoo! Messenger protocol, for example.
Still, I think that Empathy has the telepathy backend, which is what Gnome is moving toward as an intergrated text/audio/video communication method, so I think it hold a lot of promise for being included and easily accesable from almost every Gnome app. It can also leverage the Evolution address book.
Holding my breath waiting for it to be formally christened …
Posted on 13-Dec-07 at 3:15 am | Permalink