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.
I didn't have it. I'm going to investigate it.
Hug! Paul.
Coccinella is another Voip application