[arch-general] pidgin facebook connection

[Simon Hanna]

On Sat, Jul 11, 2015 at 8:23 AM, Javier Vasquez <j.e.vasquez.v at 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"
> }
>
> # 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)