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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.

Add rpmfusion repository to Fedora 11 and install with yum and it will resolve dependancies. :~#yum install facebook

Anyone managed to get this installed on MacPorts?? I've tried:

~/.purple/plugins/libfacebookppc.so ~/.purple/plugins/libfacebookmacport-1.50.so /opt/local/lib/pidgin/libfacebookppc.so /opt/local/lib/pidgin/libfacebookmacport-1.50.so

all with no luck. Do I need to sacrifice a goat to make this go or something? ;-)

i'd like the new 1.55 but i'm having trouble building from source in Windoze 2k. help?

In case anyone's wondering about dependencies on Ubuntu: libglib2.0-dev, libpurple-dev, libjson-glib-dev, zlib1g-dev

Note that the version in Ubuntu's repository won't work right now. If it refuses to connect, download the .deb file from here.

json-glib was required for this to work on Fedora Core 11 x86, thanks darklaza

I ran the pidgin-facebookchat-1.60.exe installer, and got this error when running pidgin: (12:09:22) plugins: probing C:\PROGRA~1\Pidgin\plugins\libfacebook.dll (12:09:22) plugins: C:\PROGRA~1\Pidgin\plugins\libfacebook.dll is not loadable: The specified procedure could not be found.

@darrell.engelbrecht there is no package in yum even after adding rpmfusion repo in fedora

GDebi gives me the following error under Ubuntu 9.04 with Pidgin from the default repo:

Error: Dependency is not satisfiable: libjson-glib-1.0-0 (>= 0.7.6)

That's strange... Nobody here seems to be having that problem, and I expect GDebi to install any dependencies for me (it normally does but this one does not seem to be available for me).

Yup, I installed them manually and the problem persists. Do I perhaps need an older version of libjson-glib (0.7.6 or something) instead of the 1.0-0 I installed?

When I added my facebook account I received a message that "facebook does not believe you are you" and prompted for my birth date. Each time I entered my information Pidgin crashed. When I went to the facebook site I found that for month facebook wanted the three letter abbreviation so January was Jan not 1 or 01

i get the same error as VincentBeers?

"Error: Dependency is not satisfiable: libjson-glib-1.0-0 (>= 0.7.6) "

In Ubuntu 9.04, the following works....

sudo apt-get install pidgin-facebookchat

im getting duplicate ims from this. any idea how to fix it. Ill send an im then it comes right back to me as respond. The person im chatting with recieves the im aswell.

I was able to install the 1.61 deb from here on Ubuntu Jaunty by installing the relevant libjson-glib-1.0-0 from Karmic. Worked like a charm.

openSusSE 11 x64, got 2.6.2 working, but cant get the facebook chat to work, any direction?

Keep receiving this request. I accept and 5 minutes later same deal.

100000105979261 (john doe) wants to add johndoe@gmail.com to his or her buddy list.

any ideas?

Hi ppl! Im running ubuntu 9.04...trying to run the plug-in but my facebook account crash all the time! any idea?

@fernando Same here - I think its a facebook issue as the same happens for adium on my mac

@Alex - I wrote to quickly last time! I meant: my facebook-account in pidgin is logging out after some seconds...!! I did installed the plug-in like Jeremy did but it doesnt work for me, On version 8.04 Pidging was running nice..

ok guys follows this! The plug-in works for me now!!:

http://ubuntuguide.net/install-facebook-chat-plugin-for-pidgin-in-ubuntu

is good !

In ubuntu jaunty this is available through the synaptic package manager. Just fyi.

you will also need to install "libjson-glib-1.0-0" from the synaptic package manager.

Please help me I'm going crazy! I install Facebook plugin on Linux openSUSE 11.2 and works... but... I don't know how to add my contacts to the buddy list!!! the only way to chat is if somebody talk to me first, and... the name of the person don't display, instead display the user number ID. Please I need help :(

it' seems i can't have facebook and facebook for pidgin running at the same time, it makes both of them disconnect

Nokia N900 Maemo pidgin-facebookchat install instructions (without installing Pidgin itself): http://forums.internettablettalk.com/showthread.php?t=39331&page=2#19

In regards to using this plugin with Pidgin U3, the problem stems from the need to install files into the program's folder directly. Most plugins for Pidgin work correctly when installed to the .purple directory, whereas this plugin does not support that. There are currently 3 options for making this work.

1. Request that the pidgin-facebookchat devs update their plugin to work properly from the .purple directory (as almost all other Pidgin plugins do).

2. Wait for the next version of Pidgin U3 (which may be awhile, I'm the developer and college has kept me from working on it for quite awhile now), and I will add in a workaround.

3. As a workaround for the time being, which 100% works, but will not be retained over an upgrade (once you upgrade, you will have to reinstall the plugin), follow these steps:

-Open the X:\System\Apps\3BD60D22-5CFC-4619-BD00-B58164939AAD folder on your U3 drive (X being the drive letter).

-Copy Pidgin(version).u3p into a new, empty folder

-Rename Pidgin(version).u3p to .zip

-Unzip Pidgin(version).zip

-Install the plugin files following the Windows instructions into \Host\Pidgin

-Copy the 4 folders you extracted from the .u3p file into a new ZIP file (it must be ZIP, not gzip or 7z or anything else)

-Rename the .zip file Pidgin(version).u3p

-Replace the original Pidgin(version).u3p with the one you just made.

If anyone needs to run this on a system they don't have root on, the way I found to get json-glib running was to download the plugin (I'm using Fedora 12 so I got this: http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/4/idpl/13234987/com/json-glib-0.8.0-1.fc12.x86_64.rpm.html#content), put libjson-glib-1.0.so.0.800.0 in the .purple/plugins directory as libjson-glib-1.0.so.0 (you could put it anywhere but I think the name might matter), then ran Pidgin with LD_PRELOAD=~/.purple/libjson-glib-1.0.so.0 pidgin. I'm not sure if there's an easier way.

Hello, I've installed the last version on my ubuntu karmic but I can't connect to facebook? It's like my password was wrong. Is there a bug or it's my setup ? thx

Pidgin U3 has been updated to work with pidgin-facebook. There is a U3 plugin installer found at http://sourceforge.net/projects/u3smartapps/files/Pidgin/Plugins/ProtocolsPlugins_1.1.0_U3_Setup.exe/download

If you want to update manually, follow the instructions for Pidgin Portable above, except with the following directories.

libfacebook.dll goes in: X:\System\Apps\3BD60D22-5CFC-4619-BD00-B58164939AAD\Data\Host\Pidgin\plugins

libjson-glib.dll goes in: X:\System\Apps\3BD60D22-5CFC-4619-BD00-B58164939AAD\Data\Host\Pidgin

sebastien.pimenta same problem

Hello,

I have Opensuse 11.1 and fails when compile.

~/bin/pidgin-facebookchat> make i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -I/usr/include/libpurple -I/usr/local/include/libpurple -DPURPLE_PLUGINS -DENABLE_NLS -DHAVE_ZLIB -Wall -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/glib-2.0/include -I/usr/include -I/usr/local/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/local/lib/glib-2.0/include -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/include/json-glib-1.0 -ljson-glib-1.0 -I. -g -O2 -pipe libfacebook.c fb_blist.c fb_connection.c fb_conversation.c fb_info.c fb_managefriends.c fb_messages.c fb_notifications.c fb_search.c fb_util.c fb_friendlist.c fb_json.c fb_chat.c libfacebook.h fb_blist.h fb_connection.h fb_conversation.h fb_info.h fb_managefriends.h fb_messages.h fb_notifications.h fb_search.h fb_util.h fb_friendlist.h fb_json.h fb_chat.h -o libfacebook.so-shared -fPIC -DPIC make: i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc: No se encontró el programa make: [libfacebook.so] Error 127

Greetings

Same problem as sebastian.pimenta and qwertymodo, but on windows and u3.

its worked thank u

I could not connect. It appears this message: "SSL Connection Failed".

Could you help me please?

its not installing in my mobile p.p.r

無法連接。接受證書後facebook有提示。同意之後仍然無法連接。求幫助

I'm having a lot of trouble compiling this from source. Is there any chance we could be provided with either:

1. More detailed, thorough instructions on how to create the plugin from the available source, with the amateur in mind.

2. An updated .dll file for all, at least to hold us over. (I realize development is currently still being made, but a lot of progress and several revisions have already passed by with no updated file accessible to the common user)