Animesh Kumar {itsAnimesh}
I'm an IT professional/FOSS Geek living and working in New Delhi, India. Currently for the most part I work as a Technical Consultant developing Open Source ICT solutions for social and societal inclusion. I am a a FOSS enthusiast, I want to create an awareness about FOSS through the work I do. Below are the latest updates from a some social networks I subscribe to.
Voice Chat on Ubuntu – Empathy!!!
Empathy consists of a rich set of reusable instant messaging widgets, and a GNOME client using those widgets. It uses Telepathy and Nokia’s Mission Control, and reuses Gossip’s UI. The main goal is to permit desktop integration by providing libempathy and libempathy-gtk libraries. libempathy-gtk is a set of powerful widgets that can be embeded into any GNOME application.
Installation
First we will add launchpad repository to get latest binary for ubuntu :
Add these lines to your /etc/apt/sources.list :
sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list
For Jaunty(9.04) Users
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/telepathy/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/telepathy/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main
For Intrepid(8.10) users
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/telepathy/ppa/ubuntu intrepid main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/telepathy/ppa/ubuntu intrepid main
For Hardy(7.04) users
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/telepathy/ppa/ubuntu hardy main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/telepathy/ppa/ubuntu hardy main
Finally, you need to update the source list using the following command
sudo apt-get update
Install the required packages and empathy via this command :
sudo apt-get install empathy telepathy-gabble telepathy-mission-control telepathy-stream-engine telepathy-butterfly python-msn
SetUp Empathy
Start Empathy by going Applications –> Internet –> Empathy Instant Messenger or empathy command
Use your google talk account here and click Advanced and be sure server is talk.google.com , port 5223, and use old ssl is checked.