Facebook Chat Plugin For Pidgin – Working Version

By , Published November 11, 2009

The facebook-chat plugin for Pidgin available in Ubuntu’s repositories is out-of-date and doesn’t work with recent versions of Pidgin spitting out “wrong-credentials” pop-ups and the like.

Instead you’ll want to use the most recent version over at the plug-in’s Google Code page – which comes in a hand .deb for for easy-peasy one-click installation.

You’ll to make sure that you remove any currently installed version of the plugin before  using the updated version.

Article originally appeared on omgubuntu.co.uk

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  • Joko Gendeng

    please show me how to “make sure that you remove any currently installed version of the plugin before using the updated version”. Thanks

    • http://omgubuntu.co.uk/ d0od

      Sure =)Type the following into a terminal: -sudo apt-get remove pidgin-facebookchatOr search for ‘facebookchat’ in synaptic package manager.

      • Joko Gendeng

        that was fast reply… thanks man, you are the best!

  • http://www.gnimsh.com/blog Justin

    Thank you! I’ve been noticing facebook chat was no longer showing people online in pidgin, but I could get messages from people on it. Very annoying!

  • http://twitter.com/Sheldno Sheldon

    Cool, but are there any mirrors? I can’t seem to download the deb… 0 bytes/sec, unknown time remaining…

  • Mohan

    Awesome, I actually didn’t know that as I don’t log on to fb chat via pidgin much, but thanks for the info.

  • molecule-eye

    Nice. Now working for Empathy as well.