How to Enable Facebook Chat for Pidgin in Ubuntu
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Currently the plugin can log into the Facebook servers, grab the buddy list, send/receive messages, add/remove friends, receive notifications, search for Facebook friends and set your Facebook status.
Note:- Now this plugin is in ubuntu repositories use the following command to install
sudo apt-get install pidgin-facebookchat
Install Facebook Chat for Pidgin in Ubuntu
First you need to download the plugin using the following command
wget http://pidgin-facebookchat.googlecode.com/files/pidgin-facebookchat-1.38.deb
Now you should have pidgin-facebookchat-1.38.deb package.Install this .deb package using the following command
sudo dpkg -i pidgin-facebookchat-1.38.deb
This will complete the installation.After installation you need to restart Pidgin! You will then have a FacebookChat option in your accounts manager dialog.
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Just wanted to add this if your having problems setting this up. If you are using the “new” facebook, make when adding your facebook account (screen name is your email address) that you go to the “Advanced” tab and change “SERVER: http://www.facebook.com” to “SERVER: http://www.new.facebook.com“. I did this and now it works wonderfully.
Thanks a lot for this!! 🙂 I hate having to chat from within the facebook page – I like having my chats saved to file which it can’t do. And it was another window – thanks for the howto!
Thanks for this! ‘been waiting for Pidgin to upgrade so it’d work.
Cheers;
Ed
thanks. ubuntu is rocking.
i’ve got error message “SSL error..”
im behind the proxy server… any advance conf*
nb: my yahoo work well with this conf
ummmmm it depends on the proxy…. if the proxy block the port for FB.. it doesn’t work(that was happening yesterday)
now with other proxy, it works well…
but all of my friends is sleeping TT
br,
chika.tambun
I installed the packages for Facebook Chat and Skype and neither one of them appears in the “add accounts” menu. The files exist with a chmod of 755 in /usr/lib/purple-2 and I am using Hardy Heron and pidgin 2.4.1 (can’t seem to be able to install the newest version)
well… after expriment a while face-book-plugin don’t work perfectly…. there are some delay in receiving message…
i prefer to use yoono plugin for firefox it work extraordinary for me
Strangely, the plugin works to send messages, but all responses are sent to facebook instead of pidgin, regardless of whether I’m logged in to Facebook.
Any ideas?
Tutorial seems very scant but does provide some details. I’ve added how to compile it from source since the svn builds do add a lot of functionality.
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=975783
Thankyou, my only glitch after setting this up over 5 PCs was: on the last pc I didn’t have any accounts setup on pidgin.
So when pidgin was finally started there was no option for facebook.
quick fix after trial and error :
open pidgin
I setup account to link with Aim(or any other IM) then shut down pidgin .
Next I opened terminal….
became root typed in sudo -i
prompted for password …
next I typed in
wget http://pidgin-facebookchat.googlecode.com/files/pidgin-facebookchat-1.38.deb
next I typed in
sudo dpkg -i pidgin-facebookchat-1.38.deb
next I closed terminal
This time when I started pidgin on the pc in question the facebook option was available.
this process worked for me on a fresh (new ) install Ubuntu 8.10
Thanks UG
Very helpful, thanks!
This package made it to the repositories, so you can do sudo apt-get install pidgin-facebookchat to install it.
Would be nice to include this in the post..
@Thanks for your note and i have update the article now
@Stephanie I had to symlink /usr/local/lib/pidgin/libfacebook.so to the real installed location at /usr/lib/purple-2/libfacebook.so – then it showed up and worked.
I need help logging into face book instant messager
I have managed to install the plugin and have created an new account for Facebook, using the email address and password I have for my Facebook account. I left local alias blank, server is set to new.facebook.com and proxy type is set to “Use GNOME Proxy Settings.”
Yet this doesn’t work for me. Any ideas what might be wrong?
Yeah, Yeah, yeah, fucken rocks
Note, you no longer need a plugin to chat with your Facebook friends through Pidgin, as Facebook now uses XMPP.
http://www.facebook.com/sitetour/chat.php
worked like a charm…thanks !
good job!
love it much…
No plugin required. Installed pidgin (libpurple 2.7.11).
Ensure to enable facebook username at facebook website.
Great job… Thank you in advance.
Cheers….
like a charm.
working great on XMPP protocol