Skype and Facebook on Pidgin too!

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There's a plugin which make possible to integrate Facebook into Pidgin, and there's one for Skype too. Just a problem: the Skype one requires Skype opened in background, to work: So it's just to unify all kinda chat in a client.
For the Facebook one there are no problems.

So, for the Facebook plugin just do

sudo apt-get install pidgin-facebookchat

And restart Pidgin in case it was opened. Then go to Account - Manage Accounts and do Add... There set as protocol Facebook and fill all the fields.

For the Skype one, go here and download the .deb you found there, and it's done!

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