Facebook`s Chat feature really makes Facebook an all-in-one social networking website. People have started using the Facebook Chat much as they use the Google Chat. The only only downside to Facebook`s chat is that you donont have a client for the chat feature. But, now you can have your favourite Facebook Chat right on a client and chat with your Facebook friends without even logging into the Facebook website. What you will need is a chat client called Pidgin and the facebook-pidgin-chat plugin. Follow these simple steps to setup Facebook chat on the Pidgin chat client. I have given separate steps for various distros to set the Facebook-Chat-on-Pidgin working:

Windows

• Download the Pidgin Chat Client
• Now Download the Facebook Windows Plugin for Windows and install it. Alternatively, download the .dll and copy it to C:\Program Files\Pidgin\plugins\ directory and restart Pidgin.

Fedora

• Install Pidgin Messenger

• Install Facebook Chat plugin for Pidgin

Ubuntu

• Install Pidgin Messenger

• Install Facebook Chat plugin for Pidgin

You should check the plugin download repository and install instructions for setting up Facebook chat on Pidgin for other platforms.

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