According to https://packages.debian.org/buster/gome/empathy, emapthy uses gnome-contacts. I can open the graphical interface to gnome-contacts and see that three contacts are registered. Nevertheless Empthy persists in showing 0 contacts and reporting "You haven't added any contacts yet".
Any ideas? Thanks, ... Peter E. -- https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Medical_Machines https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Oberon Tel: +1 604 670 0140 Bcc: peter at easthope. ca
