Re: [orca-list] pidgin and fb stopped working together, what now?

[Peter Vágner <pvdeejay gmail com>]

Hello,
There is nothing to install when using Thunderbird.
Any recent version of Thunderbird is enough, I guess Thunderbird has this thing built in since version 17 or something similar.
Knowing this you can just go to
Menu bar -> File -> Chat account. A new account wizard should open. In the list of supported protocols choose Facebook chat. Hit next and fill in your account name and password on upcoming screens. Your facebook account is not your email address nor your phone number. You can opt to have one on the facebook website if you had not done this previously.
With this being sayd, Facebook XMPP interface is obsolete everywhere, they have stated numerous times they are discontinuing that so I am afraid this is just coincidence it's still working for me like this.

Back to facebook-purple José has recommended, the following is an excerpt from their readme...

Make sure glib, json-glib, libpurple (pidgin), and zlib are installed with their headers and development information. If these packages came from the distribution's repository, they will likely need additional development packages, usually suffixed with -dev.

I'm not on debian and compatible so I think apt-cache and apt-get will help you if you are on ubuntu and similar.
On archlinux, José has even quoted PKGBUILD script you can use to build this.

Greetings

Peter

On 12.07.2015 at 09:22 kk wrote:

Hi Peter,
How do you install the plugin?
Secondly, how do you chat?
Is it very accessible using Thunderbird?
Can you mail me off the list about the details?
Happy hacking.
Krishnakant.

On Sunday 12 July 2015 12:49 PM, Peter Vágner wrote:

Hello,
This is interesting. I am using thunderbird for chatting on facebook, my girl friend is using instantbird on windows, we both are connecting via xmpp to it and it appears to work even today at least I can see all my contacts online.
Yesterday I was even chatting with one of my other friends.

Greetings

Peter

On 12.07.2015 at 09:11 kk wrote:

I could not compine it.
Can any one please tell me what dependencies I need>
I tryed to install pidgin-dev and libpurple-dev, but still nothing works, the autoreconf install fails and I can't go any further with the setup.
Can any one guide me?
I guess it is a matter of one .so file which needs to be coppied to some share/purple directory or some thing.
happy hacking.
Krishnakant.

On Sunday 12 July 2015 06:49 AM, B.Henry wrote:

Just to report that it is indeed working fine here too. Don't forget to clean up quote chars, e.g. > and any broken lines that may appear in your email message before trying the PKGBUILD, but if you are using arch you don't need the reminder most likely...smiles.
Anyway, thanks for posting this promptly José.

     B.H.
   Registerd Linux User 521886

On 11/07/15 08:20 AM, José Vilmar Estácio de Souza wrote:

I received the following, perhaps it can help.
It was posted in the arch-general archlinux org

On Sat, Jul 11, 2015 at 8:23 AM, Javier Vasquez <j e vasquez v gmail com>
wrote:

I just found out facebook no longer supports xmpp interface, and it's
using its own api [1].

However I found a plugin for pidgin on github [2].  It seems to be
working fine for me.

If anyone interested, the following PKGBUILD is also working for me:

++++++++++++++++++++++
# Maintainer: Javier <j.e.vasquez.v at gmail dot com>
pkgname=purple-facebook
pkgver=a34b993324e4
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc="Facebook protocol plugin for libpurple"
arch=("i686" "x86_64")
url="" moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="https://github.com/jgeboski/purple-facebook">"https://github.com/jgeboski/purple-facebook"
license=('GPL2')
depends=('libpurple' 'pidgin')
source=("
https://github.com/jgeboski/purple-facebook/releases/download/${pkgver}/purple-facebook-${pkgver}.tar.gz
")
md5sums=('50e706ec573708da63951c33b5db120d')

build() {
  cd "${srcdir}/${pkgname}-${pkgver}"
  ./configure --prefix=/usr
  make
}

package() {
  cd "${srcdir}/${pkgname}-${pkgver}"
  make DESTDIR="${pkgdir}" install
  install -Dm644 COPYING "${pkgdir}/usr/share/licenses/${pkgname}/LICENSE"
}

# vim:set ts=2 sw=2 et:
++++++++++++++++++++++


--
Javier

[1]
http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2015/04/facebook-chat-api-empathy-pidgin-stop-working
[2]  https://github.com/jgeboski/purple-facebook

I'm not using it but a quick aur search found this:
https://aur4.archlinux.org/packages/purple-facebook-git/
If you think whatever you are using is better, you could publish it to
aur(4)

On 07/11/2015 10:07 AM, kk wrote:

hello all,
This is bad news.
Pidgin and FB won't work now it seems.
So if I go to facebook.com will I be able to chat using Orca?
I never tired this before so wished to have a word or 2 from experienced people.
Happy hacking.
Krishnakant.

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