How to install Empathy 3.x?

Question

Is it possible and if yes how, to install Empathy 3.0.1 and above in Ubuntu 11.04?

Solution

The package isn't in official Ubuntu repositories. At the moment you have two choices:

1. Using some non-official package (PPA): Open a terminal and type sudo add-apt-repository ppa:telepathy/ppa. If this succeeded, type sudo apt-get update. Now you are done and can install Empathy. The current PPA version is 3.0.0-1~ppa11.04+1.
2. Go to the Empathy tree. There you'll find version 3.0.1 (tar.gz). You can download and unpack it. Before you continue make sure that the following packages are installed: gnome-common gettext libglib2.0-dev 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 Change into the directory where you unpacked the tar.bz2-file. First you should enter ./autogen.sh. If this is successful, you can build the software with the command make and make install installs the software in your system. Empathy's Install page has some more information.

Comments

[Luis Alvarado]

that is the one am using right now but i would like to test a newer one.

[Luis Alvarado]

Thank you qbi. Now my second question would be if the dependencies for it will not create a problem with the libraries in 11.04

[qbi]

As far as I see it Empathy doesn't require a special version of any library. So if you have luck you can use those which are contained in 11.04. However I have not tried myself to install Empathy 3. So it is only guesswork.