Installation Instructions

Ubuntu

Other

Install build dependencies. If you are building on a Debian based system, you need the following packages:

gnome-common
gettext
libglib2.0-dev
gnome-doc-utils
gtk-doc-tools
libxml2-dev
libtelepathy-glib-dev
libmissioncontrol-client-dev
libtelepathy-farsight-dev
libx11-dev
libgtk2.0-dev
libcanberra-gtk-dev
libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-dev
libebook1.2-dev
libnotify-dev
libunique-dev
libgnome-keyring-dev
libtelepathy-logger-dev
libwebkitgtk-3.0-dev
libgnutls-dev
libfolks-dev
libfolks-telepathy-dev
libcanberra-gtk3-dev
libgcr-3-dev
gsettings-desktop-schemas-dev

For working VoIP you need telepathy-stream-engine
Optional dependencies:
- for spellcheck:
```
libenchant
```
- for megaphone and nothere applets:
```
libpanelapplet
```
Check out Empathy from GNOME Git repository:
git clone git://git.gnome.org/empathy

or get it from tarballs
Run:
$ ./autogen.sh --prefix=<your prefix>
$ make && make install
$ ldconfig (if installing in a system library. Make sure that "/etc/ld.so.conf" contains "<your prefix>/lib" first.)
If you installed in a special prefix different from /usr or /usr/local you have to add it to XDG dirs:
$ export XDG_DATA_DIRS="$XDG_DATA_DIRS:$prefix"
To make use of files from source dir (*.ui, *.dtd, etc) you can define EMPATHY_SRCDIR=/path/to/empathy/source