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="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

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)