Ubuntu – Chatting with Empathy

empathyirc

I'd like to chat in some irc-channels hostet at freenode and i don't really know how. How do I create an account, how do I use it with Empathy?

You do not need an account to chat on Freenode. Just add an IRC "account" on Empathy and enter a nick. To join a channel, go to Join Room.

Basically the channel name for the ape-project is #ape-project. So after joining to freenode on empathy Just do

/join #ape-project

on text input field.

In 13.04 (and presumably 12.10), telepathy relies on rakia instead of sofiasip, and you need the Ubuntu account SIP module. In other words :

sudo apt-get install telepathy-rakia account-plugin-sip