Facebook Messenger Is Back In Pidgin!

Earlier This Year ...

Facebook shut down their XMPP service and because of this, Pidgin/libpurple no longer supports Facebook Chat. For those of you who want to use Facebook Chat in Pidgin, there is now a new plugin which makes it possible once again, called purple-facebook.

Install purple-facebook in Ubuntu, Linux Mint and their derivatives

You can use its official repository. To add the repository and install the plugin, use the following commands in the Linux Terminal:

sudo sh -c "echo 'deb http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/jgeboski/xUbuntu_$(lsb_release -rs)/ /' >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/jgeboski.list"

cd /tmp && wget http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/jgeboski/xUbuntu_$(lsb_release -rs)/Release.key

sudo apt-key add - < Release.key  

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install purple-facebook

If you don't want to add the PPA, you can download the DEB from HERE (but you won'treceive any updates unless you add the repository).


Once installed, add a new account in Pidgin (Accounts > Manage Accounts > Add) and in the Protocol dropdown, select "Facebook" (important: NOT "Facebook (XMPP)") in the username field, you can enter either your email, your Facebook username or phone number associated with your Facebook account.