empathy command not found

Introduction

When you run more command in linux terminal / console, you get the following error message

empathy: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: empathy: command not found

Solutions to empathy: command not found

How To Fix empathy: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu empathy is provided by empathy package.

empathy is:

Instant messaging program supporting text, voice, video, file transfers and inter-application communication over many different protocols, including: AIM, Windows Live (MSN), Google Talk (Jabber/XMPP), Yahoo!, Salut, Gadu-Gadu, Groupwise and ICQ.

This package contains the Empathy IM application and account manager.

To fix this problem, we can install more using the command below.

sudo apt-get -y install empathy

This command might take some time to finish depending on your machine internet connection.

You can also use apt command to install empathy.

sudo apt -y install empathy

Or if you have aptitude installed you can use the following command.

sudo aptitude install empathy

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix empathy command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.