empathy-common software package provides GNOME multi-protocol chat and call client (common files), you can install in your Debian 7 (Wheezy) by running the commands given below on the terminal,
$ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get install empathy-common
empathy-common is installed in your system.
Make ensure the empathy-common package were installed using the commands given below,
$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep empathy-common *
You will get with empathy-common package name, version, architecture and description in a table
| Distro | Debian 7 wheezy |
| Section | GNOME |
| Package | empathy-common |
| Version | 3.4.2.3-2+deb7u1 |
| Description | GNOME multi-protocol chat and call client (common files) |
| Sub Section | GNOME |