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I have just succeeded with doing exactly that. I've added Facebook to RTCOMM and it works. You can create an account, login and it will work.

I won't be releasing it until I can talk to some of the guys from Collabora first because the side effect is that the Contacts app stops showing you who is online for all of the RTCOMM protocols. This is probably because of the plugins for Haze missing something it requires.

Some additional details... when you first message a Facebook contact, their name will be shown as their Facebook profile number. After a minute or so, it will be replaced with their profile's real name. Also, even though the Facebook icon appears to be in the right place, the UI doesn't pick it up.

Facebook updates (when people comment on something you've done, for example) are properly sent and received however RTCOMM does not actually show this to you. I know it's there because the incoming messages show up in the syslog.

Once I can get a hold of the Collabora guys and we can get some of the kinks worked out, I'll release... or maybe Collabora will release a package for adding Facebook.

how do i copy this to this directory??i cant seem to find the directory path

I use emelfm2, its a great little file manager.

The previous instructions are out of date now as the plugin now relies on json-glib. Here are the latest instructions first for the N800/N810 followed by the N900.

N800/N810

Download the following files to My Documents.

http://www.filefactory.com/file/a2dh...emo3_armel.deb

http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool....0-1_armel.deb

Now open X Terminal, and become root.

Type cd MyDocs

Followed by dpkg -i libglib2.0-0_2.20.3-1maemo3_armel.deb

Followed by dpkg -i libjson-glib-1.0-0_0.8.0-1_armel.deb

Then download the latest plugin from here

http://pidgin-facebookchat.googlecod...ookarm-1.64.so

and place in /usr/lib/purple-2/.

You must make sure you remove any previous libfacebookarm-***.so files or it could cause pidgin to crash.

Reboot and you will find Facebook listed in protcols when adding an account in pidgin.

N900

Download file from following link

http://repository.maemo.org/extras-d...emo1_armel.deb

Go into xterm, change directory to the directory you saved above file to.

You now need to become root (not sure how on a N900 but search on this forum and you should be able to find it).

Type dpkg -i libjson-glib-1.0-0_0.8.0-1maemo1_armel.deb

Now download following file

http://pidgin-facebookchat.googlecod...ookarm-1.64.so

and place in /usr/lib/purple-2/.

You must make sure you remove any previous libfacebookarm-***.so files or it could cause pidgin to crash.

Reboot and you will find Facebook listed in protcols when adding an account in pidgin.

You can also add the Facebook icons for both installs.

Download following file

http://pidgin-facebookchat.googlecod...book_icons.zip

Unzip and place icons in /usr/share/pixmaps/pidgin/protocols

Sorry some of the links were not working, I have gone through them all and they should be working now.

Anyone having trouble with libglib2.0-0_2.20.3-1maemo3_armel.deb im sorry the first link was wrong (the website I used to host it changed the name of the file). I have put a new link up which once downloaded will install with instructions given above.

evrything was going fine till the time i tried to move the libfacebookarm-1.64.so file to /usr/lib/purple-2/. Im using the GPE file manager. as soon as i try to move the file, it says "access denied"....
what do i do??

I don't have a N900 to test, but it sounds like a permisson problem. Are you doing this as root? Can you change the permissons of the folder /usr/lib/purple-2 with GPE? If not you can with emelfm2.

i could not find emelfm2 in app manager. in which package is it located?

http://www.debernardis.it/downloads/...optified01.deb

i hv emelfm2
i can browse to both the folders on the left and the right side respectively.
but there is no text written under any icon. i cnt seem to knw which is the copy button.
the only copy button i could think of is the one with "two pages" together.
when i press it...nothing happens
neither the file is copied.!?
pls help