Please consider create a deb package as release. I believe that this may be helpful for ordinary Ubuntu users who will lose access to chat Faceboook.
$ sudo checkinstall
checkinstall 1.6.2, Copyright 2009 Felipe Eduardo Sanchez Diaz Duran
This software is released under the GNU GPL.
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**** Debian package creation selected ***
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This package will be built according to these values:
0 - Maintainer: [ root@adas-AMILO-Pro-V3205 ]
1 - Summary: [ Purple Facebook implements the Facebook Messenger protocol into pidgin, finch, and libpurple. While the primary implementation is for purple3, this plugin is back-ported for purple2. ]
2 - Name: [ purple-facebook ]
3 - Version: [ a34b993324e4 ]
4 - Release: [ 1 ]
5 - License: [ GPL ]
6 - Group: [ checkinstall ]
7 - Architecture: [ i386 ]
8 - Source location: [ purple-facebook-a34b993324e4 ]
9 - Alternate source location: [ ]
10 - Requires: [ ]
11 - Provides: [ purple-facebook ]
12 - Conflicts: [ ]
13 - Replaces: [ ]
Enter a number to change any of them or press ENTER to continue: 3
Enter new version:
>> 0.0.1
This package will be built according to these values:
0 - Maintainer: [ root@adas-AMILO-Pro-V3205 ]
1 - Summary: [ Purple Facebook implements the Facebook Messenger protocol into pidgin, finch, and libpurple. While the primary implementation is for purple3, this plugin is back-ported for purple2. ]
2 - Name: [ purple-facebook ]
3 - Version: [ 0.0.1 ]
4 - Release: [ 1 ]
5 - License: [ GPL ]
6 - Group: [ checkinstall ]
7 - Architecture: [ i386 ]
8 - Source location: [ purple-facebook-a34b993324e4 ]
9 - Alternate source location: [ ]
10 - Requires: [ ]
11 - Provides: [ purple-facebook ]
12 - Conflicts: [ ]
13 - Replaces: [ ]
Enter a number to change any of them or press ENTER to continue:
Installing with make install...
========================= Installation results ===========================
Making install in pidgin/libpurple/protocols/facebook
make[1]: Wejście do katalogu `/tmp/libpurple/purple-facebook-a34b993324e4/pidgin/libpurple/protocols/facebook'
make[2]: Wejście do katalogu `/tmp/libpurple/purple-facebook-a34b993324e4/pidgin/libpurple/protocols/facebook'
make[2]: Nie ma nic do zrobienia w `install-exec-am'.
/bin/mkdir -p '/usr/lib/purple-2'
/bin/bash ../../../../libtool --mode=install /usr/bin/install -c libfacebook.la '/usr/lib/purple-2'
libtool: install: /usr/bin/install -c .libs/libfacebook.so /usr/lib/purple-2/libfacebook.so
libtool: install: /usr/bin/install -c .libs/libfacebook.lai /usr/lib/purple-2/libfacebook.la
libtool: finish: PATH="/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/sbin" ldconfig -n /usr/lib/purple-2
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Libraries have been installed in:
/usr/lib/purple-2
If you ever happen to want to link against installed libraries
in a given directory, LIBDIR, you must either use libtool, and
specify the full pathname of the library, or use the '-LLIBDIR'
flag during linking and do at least one of the following:
- add LIBDIR to the 'LD_LIBRARY_PATH' environment variable
during execution
- add LIBDIR to the 'LD_RUN_PATH' environment variable
during linking
- use the '-Wl,-rpath -Wl,LIBDIR' linker flag
- have your system administrator add LIBDIR to '/etc/ld.so.conf'
See any operating system documentation about shared libraries for
more information, such as the ld(1) and ld.so(8) manual pages.
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make[2]: Opuszczenie katalogu `/tmp/libpurple/purple-facebook-a34b993324e4/pidgin/libpurple/protocols/facebook'
make[1]: Opuszczenie katalogu `/tmp/libpurple/purple-facebook-a34b993324e4/pidgin/libpurple/protocols/facebook'
make[1]: Wejście do katalogu `/tmp/libpurple/purple-facebook-a34b993324e4'
make[2]: Wejście do katalogu `/tmp/libpurple/purple-facebook-a34b993324e4'
make[2]: Nie ma nic do zrobienia w `install-exec-am'.
make[2]: Nie ma nic do zrobienia w `install-data-am'.
make[2]: Opuszczenie katalogu `/tmp/libpurple/purple-facebook-a34b993324e4'
make[1]: Opuszczenie katalogu `/tmp/libpurple/purple-facebook-a34b993324e4'
======================== Installation successful ==========================
Copying documentation directory...
./
./INSTALL
./VERSION
./NEWS
./ChangeLog
./AUTHORS
./README
./COPYING
Copying files to the temporary directory...OK
Stripping ELF binaries and libraries...OK
Compressing man pages...OK
Building file list...OK
Building Debian package...OK
Installing Debian package...OK
Erasing temporary files...OK
Writing backup package...OK
OK
Deleting temp dir...OK
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Done. The new package has been installed and saved to
/tmp/libpurple/purple-facebook-a34b993324e4/purple-facebook_0.0.1-1_i386.deb
You can remove it from your system anytime using:
dpkg -r purple-facebook
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