How do I join a channel on Freenode with Empathy?

Question

I have empathy already installed but am not sure how to configure it to join the channel at http://www.ape-project.org. I do not have a password or login name yet to properly configure the channel with Empathy and when I click "Join our IRC Channel" firefox comes back with an error stating:

Firefox doesn't know how to open this address, because the protocol (irc) isn't associated with any program.

What can I do to join this (freenode) channel?

UPDATE 1 Using Empathy Version 2.23.1 When viewing accounts click "Add..." Protocol: "IRC" Network: "freenode" create new nickname, password, and real name.

Then went back to ape-project.org link and click "Join our IRC Channel" again. It brings my Empathy contact list to the foreground but nothing happens...

Solution 1

Since Empathy wouldn't do anything when I click on the link (won't bring up an input box for me to enter /join #ape-project or anything. And since I can't get freenode server to bring anything up either I just started using xchat - which works perfectly fine.

Solution 2

Basically the channel name for the ape-project is #ape-project. So after joining to freenode on empathy Just do

/join #ape-project

on text input field.

Solution 3

In ubuntu 13.04, you should add the account-plugin-irc package to use IRC:

sudo apt-get install account-plugin-irc

After that you'll have an IRC account option under "Online Accounts".

Solution 4

In empathy "help" menu, you can see that it's easy to setup your IRC.

First you have to add a new account for IRC. You can choose networks provided by empathy or add new network (e.g: irc.freenode.net)

Don't forget to add your nickname, not only "realname".

To join a chat room, go to Room > Join (shortcut Ctrl+J) and input the room name. (e.g: #ape-project)

NB: If you can't create IRC account, try sudo apt-get install telepathy-idle

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Comments

[Braiam]

He's asking about Empathy, and that package only works with Geany, no?

[adamlamar]

I'm not familiar with Geany, but the above solution most definitely worked for me. Previously when I tried to add an IRC account to empathy, it simply took me to the "Online Accounts" system dialog. After I installed account-plugin-irc, empathy connected to the freenode account I defined in Online Accounts. I think this process has changed in the later releases of ubuntu, hence the caveat for 13.04.

[Braiam]

Mm... found out that that package is included in the universe repository and depends on telepaty-idle which is the one I'm accustomed seeing. It seems that only include /usr/share/accounts/providers/ files so Gnome environment knows about who provides irc://. But for empathy seems that the shortest route is telepathy-idle.

[Ayush]

please reconsider the "correct answer" flag

[Fresheyeball]

"after joining to freenode on empathy " <- can you expand on this?