How to use Skype with Empathy

One of our readers, Luis Sebastian Urrutia Fuentes, member of Devra.cl, shares with us a brief tutorial on how to use Skype or Whatsapp with Empathy, since apparently pidgin-skype does not work as it should.


Well, without further ado, I leave you with the instructions:

First to install what we need:

sudo apt-get install libpurple-dev libglib2.0-dev libx11-dev bzr

Now we will get the sources:

bzr branch lp: skype4empathy

Otherwise they can be downloaded from here.

We enter the folder

cd skype4empathy

Now we will edit the file:

gedit Makefile

At the beginning of the Makefile it appears

LINUX32_COMPILER = i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc
LINUX64_COMPILER = x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc

And those lines must be changed by:

LINUX32_COMPILER = i686-linux-gnu-gcc
LINUX64_COMPILER = x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc

In line number 9 (which begins with GLIB_CFLAGS) we change it to the following:

GLIB_CFLAGS = -I / usr / include / glib-2.0 -I / usr / lib / glib-2.0 / include -I / usr / lib64 / glib-2.0 / include -I / usr / include -I / usr / lib / i386 -linux-gnu / glib-2.0 / include / -I / usr / lib / x86_64-linux-gnu / glib-2.0 / include /

The line number 10 (Which begins with DBUS_CFLAGS) we change it to:

DBUS_CFLAGS = -DSKYPE_DBUS -I / usr / include / dbus-1.0 -I / usr / lib / dbus-1.0 / include -I / usr / lib64 / dbus-1.0 / include -I / usr / lib / i386-linux-gnu /dbus-1.0/include/ -I / usr / lib / x86_64-linux-gnu / dbus-1.0 / include /

We save and execute:

make libskype64.so
make libskype_dbus64.so

We copy the compiled files:

sudo cp libskype64.so / usr / lib / purple-2 /
sudo cp libskype_dbus64.so / usr / lib / purple-2 /

And voila, now we are going to Empathy, add accounts and we will find:

bigbrownchunx-skype-dbus

We add the username of our account, and we can use Skype from Empathy, as long as Skype is also open.

Thank you Luis Sebastian Urrutia Fuentes!

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  1.   Let's use Linux said

    I didn't have it. I'm going to investigate it.
    Hug! Paul.

  2.   virus said

    Coccinella is another Voip application