Ubuntu – Connecting Empathy to Windows Live

12.04empathy

I've just upgraded to 12.04 (coming from 11.10). In 11.10 Windows Live accounts worked perfectly (I suppose Empathy was 3.2.*), but now in 12.04, it's 3.4.1 and the account I had was lost. It doesn't seem to have an option to add new Windows Live accounts, though. Here's what Empathy's option window looks like:

No option for Windows Live Accounts

So, did I forget to install anything, or do I need some kind of workaround? Or even, how can I downgrade back to Empathy 3.2.* if it's the only way to make this work?

Best Answer

I found that telepathy-butterfly, the package that allowed this in empathy has been replaced by telepathy-haze. Installing telepathy-haze solved this for me.

sudo apt-get install telepathy-haze

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/precise/amd64/telepathy-butterfly

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