How to Enable Facebook Chat for Pidgin in Ubuntu
Posted by admin on October 29th, 2008 
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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.
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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October 29th, 2008 at 8:03 pm
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.
November 1st, 2008 at 11:45 pm
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!
November 6th, 2008 at 8:23 am
Thanks for this! ‘been waiting for Pidgin to upgrade so it’d work.
Cheers;
Ed
November 17th, 2008 at 6:52 am
thanks. ubuntu is rocking.
November 30th, 2008 at 8:22 pm
i’ve got error message “SSL error..”
im behind the proxy server… any advance conf*
nb: my yahoo work well with this conf
December 1st, 2008 at 6:41 pm
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
December 2nd, 2008 at 5:06 pm
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)
December 3rd, 2008 at 2:27 am
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
December 3rd, 2008 at 5:43 pm
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?
January 4th, 2009 at 5:54 am
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