Introduction

These directions will be for Ubuntu, but the general idea is the same. You'll be downloading the source code for the empathy branch using subversion, running make against Makefile.telepathy and copying the twitter.profile and twitter.manager to their respective directories.

Details

1. Install the necessary libraries (libpurple-dev and it's dependencies), telepathy haze and subversion

sudo apt-get install libpurple-dev telepathy-haze subversion

2. Download the source using subversion

svn checkout http://libpurple-twitter-protocol.googlecode.com/svn/branches/empathy libpurple-twitter-protocol

3. Compile the source, using the telepathy make file.

cd libpurple-twitter-protocol
sudo make install -f Makefile.telepathy

4. Make the directories that will hold our local copies of the telepathy twitter profile and our modified haze manager.

mkdir -p ~/.local/share/telepathy/managers/
mkdir -p ~/.local/share/mission-control/profiles

5. Copy the twitter profile so mission control knows how to handle the plugin

cp data/twitter.profile ~/.local/share/mission-control/profiles/twitter-haze.profile

6. Define the protocol information for telepathy haze. Warning if you've done a similar step previously (eg, for the facebook plugin) this will overwrite those changes. The idea is to copy the text in twitter.manager to the end of the haze.manager. You can do this manually

cat /usr/share/telepathy/managers/haze.manager data/twitter.manager > ~/.local/share/telepathy/managers/haze.manager