Howto: Add Your Facebook Friends to Pidgin

Published on July 24, 2009 in Apps by Rami Taibah

Pidgin-Facebook-Chat

This is pretty straight forward yet awesome! Get all your friends on a real chat client instead of that annoying and crippled Facebook chat window! All you need to do is install a little package called pidgin-facebook. If you are on a Debian system just download this package and install it using the GUI or the “dpkg -i” command and you are set! If you are on a Red Hat system, use Alien. For anything else just install from source.

You might also want to install the Facebook icons for Pidgin. Extract it to /usr/share/pixmaps/pidgin/protocols

facebook_buddy_list

About

Rami Taibah the founder of The Linuxologist and a self proclaimed geek and Linux aficionado. This fall, he will be pursuing an MIMS degree at UC Berkeley, California. You can follow him on Twitter @rtaibah.

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  • http://www.pkill-9.com/ Wayno

    I got a dependency error on Ubuntu 9.04 (64 bit)

    dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of pidgin-facebookchat:
    pidgin-facebookchat depends on libjson-glib-1.0-0; however:
    Package libjson-glib-1.0-0 is not installed.

    So I installed that lib. and that worked — then I installed the .deb file using dpkg. And that appears to work. Quit and restarted Pidgin – and nothing new there.

    Yes I did extract the pixmaps too.

    bluefigtoast on FB

  • http://www.pkill-9.com/ Wayno

    I got a dependency error on Ubuntu 9.04 (64 bit)

    dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of pidgin-facebookchat:
    pidgin-facebookchat depends on libjson-glib-1.0-0; however:
    Package libjson-glib-1.0-0 is not installed.

    So I installed that lib. and that worked — then I installed the .deb file using dpkg. And that appears to work. Quit and restarted Pidgin – and nothing new there.

    Yes I did extract the pixmaps too.

    bluefigtoast on FB

  • http://linuxologist.com Rami Taibah

    This might sound stupid. But did you add your Facebook account in Pidgin?

  • http://linuxologist.com Rami Taibah

    This might sound stupid. But did you add your Facebook account in Pidgin?

  • Adrian Nowak

    For me all work great, thanks :)

  • Adrian Nowak

    For me all work great, thanks :)

  • http://linuxologist.com Rami Taibah

    Glad I could help, Adrian :)

  • http://linuxologist.com Rami Taibah

    Glad I could help, Adrian :)

  • http://sirxblog.blogspot.com Fulano X

    A very simple and easy way to add this great feature to pidgin. Theres no need to add “geeks terminal codes” to make this.

  • http://sirxblog.blogspot.com Fulano X

    A very simple and easy way to add this great feature to pidgin. Theres no need to add “geeks terminal codes” to make this.

  • http://sirxblog.blogspot.com Fulano X

    A very simple and easy way to add this great feature to pidgin. Theres no need to add “geeks terminal codes” to make this.

  • http://suckup.de/ voku

    there is a packet in new ubuntu versions -> sudo aptitude install pidgin-facebookchat