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Can anyone provide me a walkthrough of how to set up Facebook on Pidgin?

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You need facebook username to use with pidgin as well as empathy. Select protocol to facebook in pidgin add account

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On username section enter just username i.e. facebook.com/USERNAME will take you to your facebook public page. If you don't have one you should get it.

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sorry Sagar...but this doesnt work at all. I enter what you've asked me to enter and it says: Invalid XMPP ID. Username portion must be set. – Elysium Apr 11 '12 at 22:31
I've tried almost all options and used this guide (wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pidgin#Facebook_XMPP) to set up Pidgin for my facebook acccount, but it is simply impossible. At the username section I am using my actual username....not the long copied link from facebook...so that cannot be the issue. Is there anyone out there who had had issues of the same type? – Elysium Apr 12 '12 at 9:31
I hope you are clear about username its not the username of your email that you use to login to facebook. Facebook itself provides username in its account settings sections. That is the username you should use. I am still focusing on this because I am using facebook chat with pidgin as I type this. Also check if there are certificates from facebook in tools > certificates section and try to remove it and re-try to login to facebook. – sagarchalise Apr 12 '12 at 9:47
I had to change the port from 5222 to 443. Found that somewhere googling. – joschi Apr 12 '12 at 12:08
I had to restart the application. Now it is working just fine. Thanks guys. – Elysium Apr 13 '12 at 16:43
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See the following link for instructions:

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Welcome to Ask Ubuntu! I see your answer is not much more than a (non-functional) link. As this demonstrates, answers which consist of just a link are not useful if the link doesn't work. Please summarize the steps in your source back into your answer to help fight link rot. Thanks! – WarriorIng64 Jun 8 '12 at 6:14
Still not great but at least the link works now. – Oli♦ Oct 23 '12 at 10:39

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