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I installed it, and checked it out in Packageview. Apparently it only installed libfacebook.so in /usr/lib/purple-2/ and some docs/icons, nothing more. No manager or profile stuff.

Now, I have both 1.63 and 1.64 versions in /usr/lib/purple-2/. Since I nowhere in the config files tell it which one to use, I don't know which version it is using now. Anyway, I doubt that it matter regarding the merging problem, but I'll move 1.64 out of there and see if it makes any difference.

@Palleman if you could get this in a working package up on the repo. you'd get a lot of attention :P lots of help I'd bet too. I'm useless though, I'm happy to use unstable software, report bugs and flash my device if necessary but I don't have any coding skills. my fault I guess.

anywho I'm backing this 100% of the way!

I removed the libfacebook.so (i.e. the 1.63 version from the devel repository), since it made the Facebook contacts appear as their Facebook ID's and not their names. So, I'm using the 1.64 version downloaded from the pidgin-facebookchat web site. I also did apt-get update and apt-get upgrade, which updated a bunch of packages (although App Manager told me there was nothing to upgrade). Among the packages were a couple of Telepathy and Haze related ones. After a reboot, I rerereremerged a couple of Facebook contacts, and rebooted again. They're still merged. So hopefully the merging problem is solved.

The apt-get upgrade also solved ICQ (haven't been online for a couple of weeks) and YIM/AIM problems ("network error", requiring reboot to get online).

There's still some problem. Going Availability -> Facebook -> Advanced settings show up an empty tab. To get to the advanced settings, I have to disable the account and then go Availability -> Accounts -> Facebook -> Advanced settings. And if I change anything, the changes don't stick when I save them. Going there again, even if going all the way out first, shows the same settings as before I changed something. I think it's because my guess about the settings syntax was wrong (see http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=39331&page=3#26 ). I'll change that, and see if it makes any difference.

MySpace: Still noone to talk to. Anyone here having a MySpace account, so I can test it?

Nathanielsametz: I don't know how to make packages and upload them to the repository. I might look into it though, or ask the pidgin-facebookchat-packager to package a conversation/contacts version too.

This might help explain why libraries and some other packages don't show up in the application manager.
Jebba's package building howto is a good place to get a feel for packaging (there's also the official Debian way).
Once you're confident with that process it's a case of setting up a garage account, requesting upload access and waiting.
Although asking the pidgin-facebookchat maintainer to merge your work with their efforts is probably easier.

Keep at it.

I can't change that, since the file is no more. There's a bunch of other manager files, but haze.manager is gone. find / -name "haze.manager" gives nothing. But the haze protocols still work (including after a couple of reboots).

Lord Awesome: I sent an email to Jonny Lamb.

i hope to c this so soon as i am so new to Linux and for me it is kinda complicated to do all this commands and as fb chat is so important 2 me and i luv how it can be integrated into the conversations contacts i hope to c it at the respo soon

Managed to get facebook set up in contacts, manged to get online, see other people online, and merge contacts seems fine, but having problems chatting. My friends don't seem to receive messages, and any messages i receive seem to getting received over and over agian.

I also find that when using the facebook plugin with pidgin there seems to be like a 50/50 chance that the message will b sent or received.

TonyUK99: I had the same problem (see earlier post), but suddenly it started to work. After that, it has happened a couple of more times, but always temporary. Facebook Chat on N900 also keeps logging me out of the browser Facebook on whatever computer I'm at for the moment, and sometimes the other way around.

Update your IM plugins, people. Facebook Chat is now included in v0.8 of the IM protocol plugins! Congrats to Collabora!

True. Thanks.