How to install Empathy in Ubuntu 9.04

Empathy is the chat client which is developed and maintained by Ubuntu Brainstorm team. This is the first chat Linux client that used for video chat.

Steps to install Empathy in Ubuntu 9.04

Step 1:

First open terminal(Applications/Accessories/Terminal), add the public key from the developers:

sudo apt-key adv --recv-keys --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com FA3A1271

Step 2: Then,edit /etc/apt/source.list

sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list

Step 3: Add these lines into the file that mentioned in step 2

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/telepathy/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main

deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/telepathy/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main

Step 4: Update and install:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install empathy

Reference: http://www.ubuntugeek.com/howto-setup-voice-chat-with-google-talk-user-using-empathy.html