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1 Empathy Accounts Dialog Won't Launch
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3 :author: Aaron Ball
4 :email: nullspoon@iohq.net
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9 I am currently working on a blog post on how to build a non-linux user
10 friendly-ish laptop (something similar to Ubuntu in software sets) using Arch
11 Linux (I know, not exactly the best of ideas). In this process, I installed
12 Empathy, a multi-medium instant messenger. When I tried to add an account
13 however, I ran into a strange issue that gave me very ambiguous errors (which I
14 unfortunately forgot to copy). After searching around, I stumbled upon
15 https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=96918[this] forum thread that solved
16 my problem. The issue is that in Arch Linux, installing Empathy doesn't
17 automagically install telepathy, a framework for real time conversation (the
18 project page can be found http://www.ohloh.net/p/telepathy[here]). To fix this
19 issue, we simply need to install telepathy.
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22 pacman -S telepathy
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25 And with that, give Empathy a reboot
26 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8_Kfjo3VjU[three times]). I found
27 unfortunately however that Empathy has a process that likes to hang behind even
28 after quitting the application. Just run an ol' *ps -ef | grep empathy* and
29 kill the pid and you should be golden.
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32 Category:Linux
33 Category:Linux_Applications
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