Empathy and VOIP on Karmic

[Johan Brannlund]

On Fri, 09 Oct 2009 15:25:18 +0100, Tony Arnold wrote:

> But I cannot find anyway to get Empathy to make a VOIP call or configure
> a VOIP account. Does anyone know how this can be done? Do I need another
> package?

That depends on what you mean by "VOIP". The primary use for the
Empathy audio/video facilities is through XMPP/Jabber accounts (such
as Google Talk).

Empathy *can* also do audio/video calls over SIP, provided that you
have the telepathy-sofiasip package installed. But the UI for this is
not very polished and you may be better off using Ekiga for that.