Empathy doesn't show bigbrownchunx-skype-dbus in the protocol list after installing pidgin-skype

i guess not a empathy bug that must be issue with the plugin and i dont think that the empathy supports skype.

It works on Empathy 3.3.3 in Ubuntu 11.10
Did you mean this is pidgin-skype bug? But in the Pidgin it works.

http://askubuntu.com/questions/15358/can-i-use-skype-through-empathy
http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2011/04/run-skype-as-a-daemon-and-manage-it-from-empathy-in-ubuntu-11-04/

I traced down the problem to one single call to the function "g_thread_init()" inside the package "pidgin-skype". As of the official glib documentation [1], the function is not needed anymore and it is deprecated from version 2.32 on, and apparently is disabled when telepathy-haze and empathy try to load the plugin.

I'm attaching a patch that comments out the call to g_thread_init. As far as I have tested it seems to work fine.

[1] http://developer.gnome.org/glib/2.31/glib-Deprecated-Thread-APIs.html#g-thread-init

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How can I fix this in my Ubuntu 12.04, being a dummy user ?

Judging by Vincenzo's comments (and patch) this bug should be filed against pidgin-skype rather than empathy.

I've fixed this in upstream as revision 629 of the Skype plugin.

I am affected too from this bug in Ubuntu Precise. How can I replace the current version of pidgin-skype with the patched one? I checked on the Eion Robb website and I guess I have to compile sources in the ${PIDGIN_SOURCE}/libpurple/plugins/ directory , but I am not able to find it ..

so should this be coming through the miltiverse release channel soon?

I marked the status in skype4empathy as "Fix Committed" because of Eion Robb's comment that he fixed it in r629 of upstream. I'll also mark the status of affecting the package "empathy" in Ubuntu as invalid as per Lee Hyde's comment.

Will the package be updated soon? The bug also affects KDEs telepathy implementation.

This also affects telepathy.

Without commit revision 629 upstream, telepathy cannot create a skype account with telepathy-haze. Actually it shows a skype option under "telepathy create account.. other" but the window is empty and an error is produced on pressing OK.

I installed the libskypeso64.so and make libskype_dbus64.so by:

svn checkout http://skype4pidgin.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ skype4pidgin-read-only
cd skype4pidgin-read-only/
sudo apt-get install libpurple-dev
kate Makefile
   remove -pc- from compiler in first lines, add
   add the following to the GLIB_CFLAGS in the make file: -I/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/glib-2.0/include/ -I/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dbus-1.0/include/
make libskype64.so
make libskype_dbus64.so
sudo cp
sudo cp *so /usr/lib/purple-2/

Now texting almost works (some lines are missed) and voice/audio cannot be called, but this might be a telepathy bug.

I should add something on my comment #13. All I know is that, before making libskype64.so and libskype_dbus64.so, telepathy would not create a skype account. When I coppied the two files in /usr/lib/purple-2/, there were no such files before, only libskype.so and libskype_dbus.so. Kopete worked ok with skype. So I might have been wrong, and what I did hasn't got to do with this bug. Should I file a new bug?
https://code.google.com/p/skype4pidgin/issues/detail?id=193

Followed the instructions in comment #13. It works. So basically it is a problem of updating the package. I have added the tag needs-packaging.

I opened bug 1067506 to get a newer version of this package to the repositories. I created a new bug as the new version has other changes too. I'm removing the needs-packaging tag since it's not used for package updates. Please see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Tags for more details.

This bug was fixed in the package pidgin-skype - 20121029+svn639+dfsg-1

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pidgin-skype (20121029+svn639+dfsg-1) unstable; urgency=low

  * New upstream snapshot (LP: #970885, #1067506).
  * Switch to compat 9.
    + Remove hardening-wrapper B-D.
  * Add VCS-* fields.

 -- Gabriele Giacone <email address hidden> Mon, 29 Oct 2012 14:44:59 +0100