New subject: [arch-general] pidgin facebook connection

11 Jul 2015


      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 <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/$%7Bpkgver%7D/...")
md5sums=('50e706ec573708da63951c33b5db120d')
build() {
  cd "${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