The Facebook Messenger Client is also available for MacOS, Linux, and Windows operating system. You can install and use all Facebook messenger features from your Desktops application. This tutorial will help you to download and install Facebook messenger client on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, 17.04 & 16.04 LTS systems.
1. Download Facebook Messenger for Ubuntu
You can download the Facebook Messenger application for your Ubuntu system directly from its Github releases pages. Click on below image to open Github page and download the Debian package (.dpkg) file as per your operating systme architecture.
2. Install Facebook Messenger
The downloaded file save under ~/Downloads directory on my system. Change the current directory to Downloads and install Facebook messenger application debian package using dpkg command.
cd ~/Downloads sudo dpkg -i messengerfordesktop-2.0.9-linux-amd64.deb sudo apt install -f
The last command is only required to install any unmet dependencies for the application.
3. Use Facebook Messenger
Launch the Facebook messenger application from Applications as shown in below screenshot.
Now use your Facebook login details to log in to messenger application and enjoy its features.
not even close to working.
reparing to unpack messengerfordesktop-2.0.9-linux-amd64.deb …
Unpacking messengerfordesktop (2.0.9-171) …
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of messengerfordesktop:
messengerfordesktop depends on libappindicator1 | libappindicator | libappindicator-gtk3; however:
Package libappindicator1 is not installed.
Package libappindicator is not installed.
Package libappindicator-gtk3 is not installed.
messengerfordesktop depends on gconf2; however:
Package gconf2 is not installed.
messengerfordesktop depends on gconf-service; however:
Package gconf-service is not installed.
messengerfordesktop depends on python; however:
Package python is not installed.
dpkg: error processing package messengerfordesktop (–install):
dependency problems – leaving unconfigured
Processing triggers for gnome-menus (3.36.0-1ubuntu1) …
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.24-1ubuntu3) …
Processing triggers for mime-support (3.64ubuntu1) …
Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme (0.17-2) …
Errors were encountered while processing:
messengerfordesktop
Hi,
Working like charm.
Only one remark: the dark themes does not change the message text input background to black to see what I’m typing with white font color. Under Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS.
Regards.
Thank you. Works for me on Linux Mint 19 x64
Just want to say what a neat & friendly site. I love it. well done.
thank you buddy this version works great …. thanks (DEB/32)
Hello Rahul,
Well, am very much thankful for the instructions and links. It worked perfect for me.
Thanks Bro… Best Wishes…
The dev has dumped this project. Take a look at Caprine instead.
https://github.com/sindresorhus/caprine
You may wish to fix a typo: a missing space, in your terminal code.
At the moment, it is: sudo dpkg -imessengerfordesktop-2.0.9-linux-amd64.deb
It should instead be: sudo dpkg -i messengerfordesktop-2.0.9-linux-amd64.deb
Me indica éste error
dpkg: error: opción -m desconocida
ejecuta con gdebi