Facebook`s Chat feature really makes Facebook an all-in-one social networking website. People have started using the Facebook Chat much as they use the Google Chat. The only only downside to Facebook`s chat is that you donont have a client for the chat feature. But, now you can have your favourite Facebook Chat right on a client and chat with your Facebook friends without even logging into the Facebook website. What you will need is a chat client called Pidgin and the facebook-pidgin-chat plugin. Follow these simple steps to setup Facebook chat on the Pidgin chat client. I have given separate steps for various distros to set the Facebook-Chat-on-Pidgin working:
• Install Pidgin Messenger
su -c ‘yum -y install pidgin’
• Install Facebook Chat plugin for Pidgin in fedora
wget http://pidgin-facebookchat.googlecode.com/files/libfacebook-1.47.so && mkdir ~/.purple/plugins && cp libfacebook-1.47.so ~/.purple/plugins/libfacebook.so
• Install Facebook Chat plugin for Pidgin in ubuntu
sudo dpkg -i http://pidgin-facebookchat.googlecode.com/files/pidgin-facebookchat-1.47.deb
You should check the plugin download repository and install instructions for setting up Facebook chat on Pidgin for other platforms.
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