Can I use `purple-facebook` with empathy?

Question

Facebook dropped the XMPP support. Since pidgin solution is to merge with purple-facebook... and empathy uses libpurple... can I somehow use empathy with purple-facebook?

I installed the package but there's no new protocol showing in empathy. With pidgin it works fine, this question doesn't regard pidgin.

Answer 1

To install the purple-facebook plugin, choose one of the following:

• You can try building it from source yourself: https://github.com/dequis/purple-facebook/wiki/Building-on-*NIX
• Add a repository, see https://jgeboski.github.io/#package-repositories
• Or download a deb-package from the repository and install it manually: http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/jgeboski/

To make 'facebook manager' show up when adding a new account:

1. Download haze-accounts-extensions-facebookmessenger-0.4-1.noarch.rpm (or any later version) on https://openrepos.net/content/nodevel/facebook-messenger-account
2. Extract it into your file-system root, i.e. /.

This should work for empathy and any other client that uses telepathy-haze.