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Can some one help me to bridge between empathy and skype? I followed every post from here and google. But it's not working. There is no option for skype in gnome-account.

I have installed pidgin-skype and telepathy-haze. Also I am using skype 4.2. I revert back from 4.3 to 4.2. Linux skype is a crap. I want to use skype using other messenger UI. I also tried wine but no luck. I found that latest version of skype can't be run in wine.

Finally system info:

Ubuntu 14.04 64bit
unity 7.2.1
empathy 3.8.6
skype 4.2
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  • Where is [here] ?
    – xangua
    Jul 18, 2014 at 17:45
  • possible duplicate of How to use Skype with Empathy in 13.04?
    – bleeves
    Jul 18, 2014 at 18:17
  • @bleeves Did you really read my question? I already mentioned this link in question.
    – shantanu
    Jul 18, 2014 at 18:58
  • So you do not want to use pidgin either?
    – bleeves
    Jul 18, 2014 at 21:53
  • @bleeves My question is clearly referring empathy. New version of pidgin has a problem, You can't send file using drag and drop the file into buddy list.
    – shantanu
    Jul 19, 2014 at 9:37

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The problem is that on Ubuntu 14.04, Empathy uses (F4 key) gnome-account, but the tutorial using empathy-skype and skype-manager says to add your Skype account to the Empathy protocol named ‘bigbrownchunx-skype-dbus’.

My solution is to open a terminal and type: empathy-accounts. You will open the screen described in the tutorial; then select Skype (dBus) profile.

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