Comments on: How to Enable Facebook Chat for Pidgin in Ubuntu

By: chaqiel

chaqiel — Sat, 10 Sep 2011 09:56:29 +0000

like a charm.
working great on XMPP protocol

By: mekik

mekik — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 03:32:44 +0000

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….

By: jak0

jak0 — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 15:53:48 +0000

good job!

By: apurva sharma

apurva sharma — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 12:16:08 +0000

worked like a charm…thanks !

By: chris

chris — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 13:40:51 +0000

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

By: Bryan

Bryan — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 08:28:48 +0000

Yeah, Yeah, yeah, fucken rocks

By: John The Bad

John The Bad — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 16:27:59 +0000

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?

By: gizmo33

gizmo33 — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 14:50:41 +0000

I need help logging into face book instant messager

By: chris

chris — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 16:07:52 +0000

@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.

By: admin

admin — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 11:46:08 +0000

@Thanks for your note and i have update the article now

By: elfstone

elfstone — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 10:31:36 +0000

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..

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 12:09:19 +0000

Very helpful, thanks!

By: Graham

Graham — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 14:40:19 +0000

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

By: Kevdog

Kevdog — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 05:54:39 +0000

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

By: Jacob

Jacob — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 16:43:30 +0000

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?

By: chika.tambun

chika.tambun — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 01:27:31 +0000

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

By: Stephanie

Stephanie — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 16:06:14 +0000

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)

By: chika.tambun

chika.tambun — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 17:41:08 +0000

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

By: chika.tambun

chika.tambun — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 19:22:21 +0000

i’ve got error message “SSL error..”
im behind the proxy server… any advance conf*

nb: my yahoo work well with this conf

By: Shubuntu

Shubuntu — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 05:52:11 +0000

thanks. ubuntu is rocking.