I am not very fond of Facebook but I do use it regularly for networking. I have managed to get around 30 friends so far and that’s because I don’t collect friends like most of people on FB do. The thing why I am writing this is that there is one thing on Facebook called Facebook Chat which you can access from the browser. Now this morning I wanted to talk to some of my Facebook friends on my Ubuntu system without opeing Facebook on my web browser.

Facebook Chat is currently only supported on some chat clients like Adium. Adium however is only supported on Mac but I wanted to do Facebook Chatting on Linux Ubuntu. So after looking here and there I found that you could actually use Facebook Chat by installing a plugin for Pidgin.

You will have to download the .deb file of this Pidgin Facebook Chat plugin.

After downloading this, you can just double click on the downloaded .deb file and the plugin will be installed. On he restart of Pidgin you will be able to add your Facebook account.

That should add Facebook Chat support on your Pidgin.

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