1. Installation Instructions

• Ubuntu

1.1. Other

1. 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

2. For working VoIP you need telepathy-stream-engine
3. Optional dependencies:
   • for spellcheck:

   libenchant

   • for megaphone and nothere applets:

   libpanelapplet

4. Check out Empathy from GNOME Git repository:
   git clone git://git.gnome.org/empathy
   

   or get it from tarballs

5. 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.)

6. 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"

7. To make use of files from source dir (*.ui, *.dtd, etc) you can define EMPATHY_SRCDIR=/path/to/empathy/source