How do I add Facebook IM to Pidgin?

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I wanted to know how to add Facebook IM to Pidgin.

Thanks!>:)

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On Thu, 17 Dec 2009 00:16:02 +0000, openghost wrote:

> I wanted to know how to add Facebook IM to Pidgin.
>
> Thanks!>:)

http://code.google.com/p/pidgin-facebookchat/ looks promising, but looks
like it’s not yet packaged (officially anyways) as an RPM - you might
find it in the build service, though - software.opensuse.org/search

Jim

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Jim Henderson
openSUSE Forums Moderator

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I used it frequently on mint.

I’m beginning to miss Debian…

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On Thu, 17 Dec 2009 01:06:01 +0000, openghost wrote:

> I used it frequently on mint.
>
> I’m beginning to miss Debian…

It’s in the build service, go to http://software.opensuse.org/search and
select your version of openSUSE, then use the one-click installer. I did
that on 11.0 and 11.1 and it seems to work just fine.

Jim

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Jim Henderson
openSUSE Forums Moderator

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why do people say they miss debian, when most of their software packages are ages old. At least Suse gives you the update software, without a broken rolling release.

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Well guys, this is what I did

  • Fresh installation of Opensuse 11.2
  • Installed pidgin from yast
  • Installed pidgin-libfacebook from Opensuse web site (tried several times with 1.61, 1.63, 1.64 with the same result):
    *pgi@linux-za6v:/usr> pidgin --debug | grep facebook
    (23:33:48) plugins: probing /usr/lib/purple-2/libfacebook.so
    (23:33:48) plugins: /usr/lib/purple-2/libfacebook.so is not loadable: undefined symbol: json_array_get_length

Please note that I installed json lib, in facts you can see here:
pgi@linux-za6v:/usr> l /usr/lib | grep json
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 27 17 dic 00:29 libjson-glib-1.0.so -> libjson-glib-1.0.so.0.602.0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 27 17 dic 00:29 libjson-glib-1.0.so.0 -> libjson-glib-1.0.so.0.602.0*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 71816 24 ott 06:01 libjson-glib-1.0.so.0.602.0*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 34296 4 dic 01:28 libmjson-1.2.so*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 17 dic 00:29 libqjson.so.0 -> libqjson.so.0.6.2*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 117048 19 ott 21:12 libqjson.so.0.6.2*
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So, any possible solution? What wrong?

Tnx,
Paolo

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Hello,

I am little late, but…
use libpurple-facebook package from home:jhaygood or X11:xfce:nilda

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well, I tried, but still no way. Finally I decided to compile it on my pc, and it works. Frankly, I think some dependences are missed and I found ldd unuseful. But I’m still not an expert linux user so …
ciao