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:
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# Maintainer: Javier
pkgname=purple-facebook
pkgver=a34b993324e4
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc="Facebook protocol plugin for libpurple"
arch=("i686" "x86_64")
url="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"
}
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Javier
[1] http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2015/04/facebook-chat-api-empathy-pidgin-stop-wor...
[2] https://github.com/jgeboski/purple-facebook