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For some Linux flavors, pidgin may also look at : /usr/local/lib/ et al /usr/local/share/pixmaps/pidgin et al That "local" can make the difference.

Great plugin. Has the features I hoped it would :)

@ matthew.morey: to use an HTTP proxy I should set it manually into facebook account. "use global proxy settings" doesn't work

Ubuntu - Hardy users:

1.) Download .deb file to Desktop 2.) Add "GDebi package installer" through Synaptic 3.) Close Synaptic (can't run GDebi with it open) 4.) Right-click on .deb file and hopefully you'll see "Open with GDebi Package Installer" 5.) Install and then voila!

NOTE Before doing it the way described above, I had tried adding somebody's repository to Synaptic and installing that way, but it was causing the crash that so many have described above.

@bugsysservant and @allie.fraser, if anyone's still having the same problem with Xandros, try downloading the .deb file. Open the file manager, right-click on the .deb, and select "Install DEB file..." in the menu. That worked for me, but the eee's default add/remove software program didn't.

RPMs downloadable from http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=76458

On Mandriva 2008.1 I downloaded libpurple0 and libpurple-devel and was not able to run make. I then downloaded the plugins package for good measure but still was unable to run make. Then I decided to copy libfacebook.so per the .deb package instructions to /usr/lib/purple-2 and that finally worked.

I needed to make extra sure that I was really working with /usr/lib/purple-2 that I had on my Mandriva system before untaring the package. It might be that the last user natnk had this same issue.

Regards

I can not find the .dll for win32 or portable. What about that?

I have a problem with Pidgin for U3. I downloaded the plugin and tried to put it in almost every subfolder of pidgin but it doesn't load it. Any idea?

To install facebook in Pidgin for U3 just create subfolder "plugins" at <your PidginU3App?>/Data/Pidgin and put the plugin in.

Can anyone give me step by step instructions on how to install this plugin in the U3 version of Pidgin. The above comments barely help.

Hi!

I had compiled pidgin 2.5.2 from source under Kubuntu. After installation, I installed facebook plugin using the .deb installer. But that did not work. I also tried extracting from .so files with root privileges from .tar.bz2 and putting the files in their respective directories. But this method also did not work.

Finally, I took all the .so files in .tar.bz2 archive and put them in <homeFolder>/.purple/plugins. This solved my problem :) However I had to create the 'plugins' folder as it was not present there.

I hope this info helps somebody...

Cheers! Dev

Hi, I'm with AMK9j I did all that devghai suggested but still no luck with installing to U3. Any other successes out there to share.

Hello. To install the plugin do the following. Download from http://code.google.com/p/pidgin-facebookchat/downloads/list In dir you downloaded to (prob ~) sudo dpkg -i pidgin-facebookchat-1.47.deb Restart pidgin, choose facebook option.

Done.

To install on U3, simply do the following: 1. Create the following two folders: $:\System\Apps\U3_APP_ID\Data\Pidgin\plugins $:\System\Apps\U3_APP_ID\Data\Pidgin\pixmaps

(obviously, the $ is whatever letter Windows mounts your U3 drive) 2. Copy libfacebook-1.47.dll to the plugin directory 3. Extract the facebook icons to the pixmaps directory 4. Restart pidgin

That's it! Please note, I haven't gotten the service icons to work, but the integration works fine otherwise.

Great work on the plugin, I love pidgin and this makes it even more useful

Need to ask a question:

When I'm logged in pidgin and I have my facebook open on Firefox, are the messages synchronized?

I usually need to see who wrote to me in Pidgin and reply to them via the website... Am I going to lose messages?

Thanks! George

hello. When I use plugin in pidgin and also Facebook toolbar 1.2.2. in Firefox, something is working wrong becauase this toolbar and web goes offline every time. When I disable plugin in pidgin toolbar and web work well. Could you help me to solve my problem?

Wahoo! I love this plugin!

Thank you! This plug-in is great :-)

OMG THAT WAS SO SIMPLE! installing any sort of plugins to u3 programs under windoes is like this: Open task manager. Right click the rocess of the app running and open folder. Then you will be able to add to the app folder.

richard.hlavna

Something similar happens with me. I am not able to sign in to Facebook messenger and the website simultaneously. I believe this is a rule enforced by Facebook itself - only one session with a user name is possible at a time. To confirm this, you can try logging in to the site with two different browsers. The one in which you logged in first will expire the moment login from second browser is successful.

Hope it helped.

PS: people trying the method I wrote was for LINUX/Debian/Kubuntu. It was not for U3! Kindly read the post carefully first and then try the method(s).

Thank you!

Doesn´t work on portable Pidgin 2.5.5

On Windows/XP, I've got: 1. libjson-glib-1.0.dll in the Pidgin drectory. 2. libfacebook.dll (1.51.0.0) in the Pidgin\plugins directory. 3. login.facebook.com.pem in the Pidgin\ca-certs directory 4. facebook in the Pidgin\pixmaps\pidgin\protocols\16 5. facebook in the Pidgin\pixmaps\pidgin\protocols\22 6. facebook in the Pidgin\pixmaps\pidgin\protocols\48

I Quit and restart Pidgin, but Facebook does not show up in the Add Account Protocol drop down.

(Neither does Skype show up, so whatever I am doing wrong for Facebook, I am making the same mistake for the libskype.dll plug-in).

Any ideas?

Can i install it straight onto my psp?

Information for the Fedora 11 - 64Bit users :

You need to install the json-glib package in order to load the facebook plugin.

I'm running Fedora 11 32 bit. I copied the file libfacebook.so into /usr/lib/purple-2/ and have restarted Pidgin. I did not see the plugin in the list. I followed @darklaza's tip for 64 bit users, but it did not make a difference. Any assistance would be appreciated.

I copied libfacebook.so to /usr/lib/pidgin but the facebook plugins not appear on the plugin list. so I then copied libfacebook again to /usr/lib/purple-2, but still it didn't work till now...

my system is zenwalk (slackware based), could anyone found a solution for my case? plzzzzz....

You can run "pidgin -d" from the command line for debug mode, and look to see what errors are being thrown. I was having the problem, but installing the libjson-glib package for OpenSuse? got me up and running.