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Bug 602022 - Empathy no longer has option to add AOL, ICQ or Yahoo account
Empathy no longer has option to add AOL, ICQ or Yahoo account
Status: RESOLVED NOTABUG
Product: empathy
Classification: Core
Component: Accounts
2.28.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
: ---
Assigned To: empathy-maint
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2009-11-15 21:59 UTC by Nasser Hasian
Modified: 2009-11-16 05:19 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.27/2.28


Description Nasser Hasian 2009-11-15 21:59:20 UTC 
n 64bit Ubuntu Karmic Koala 9.10 while using the official empathy PPA, Empathy has lost the ability to create AOL, ICQ, or Yahoo accounts. the option to add these types of accounts are missing completely from the list of protocols. I only see:

Jabber
Googletalk
People Nearby
IRC
MSN

Also if you previously had a yahoo, aol, or icq account active it will fail to connect to these services as it appears they are no longer supported.

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apt-cache policy empathy
empathy:
  Installed: 2.28.1.1-1+ppa9.10+1
  Candidate: 2.28.1.1-1+ppa9.10+1
  Version table:
 *** 2.28.1.1-1+ppa9.10+1 0
        500 http://ppa.launchpad.net karmic/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     2.28.1.1-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com karmic-updates/main Packages
     2.28.1-1ubuntu1 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com karmic/main Packages
Comment 1 Danielle Madeley 2009-11-15 23:47:30 UTC 
Have you installed telepathy-haze, which provides those protocols?
Comment 2 Danielle Madeley 2009-11-15 23:49:01 UTC 
Also, FWIW, please don't set the GNOME Target field.
Comment 3 Nasser Hasian 2009-11-16 04:36:23 UTC 
yes you are correct, i didnt have telepathy-haze installed.  it is working properly now once i manually added that package.  If i'm not mistaken, wasn't telepathy-haze set to recommends with Empathy in Karmic?  now using the PPA it is bumped down to suggests along with telepathy-butterfly.