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Empathy

Empathy is an instant messaging client which supports text, voice, video, file transfers, and inter-application communication over many different protocols.

Empathy also provides a collection of re-usable Graphical User Interface widgets for developing instant messaging clients for the GNOME desktop. It is written as extension to the Telepathy framework, for connecting to different instant messaging networks with a unified user interface.

Empathy has been included in the GNOME desktop since version 2.24. Beginning from Ubuntu 9.10 and Fedora 12, it has replaced Pidgin as the default messenger in Ubuntu and Fedora. Unlike Pidgin and clients utilizing Off-the-Record Messaging (OTR), Empathy lacks any facility for enabling privacy and security through deniable encryption.

It includes a sample client with a similar overall look and feel to the earlier Gossip client for XMPP servers. It uses Jingle for voice.

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Installation

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# pacman-g2 -S empathy


To install IRC support

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# pacman-g2 -S telepathy-idle


To install MSN support

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# pacman-g2 -S telepathy-butterfly


To install Farsight support

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# pacman-g2 -S telepathy-farsight


To install local Jabber suport

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# pacman-g2 -S telepathy-salut


To install MSN python support

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# pacman-g2 -S telepathy-sofiasip
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