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    Home»Linux Distributions»Ubuntu»How to Install Facebook Messenger Client on Ubuntu 18.04

    How to Install Facebook Messenger Client on Ubuntu 18.04

    RahulBy RahulApril 22, 20182 Mins ReadUpdated:September 21, 2021

    Facebook is one of the leading social media networks. It is freely available for everyone around the world. Anyone can simply create an account using their email address and mobile number. After creating the account, you can access all of its features.

    Facebook is available as a web application as well as provides mobile applications like Android and iOS. You can easily find the mobile applications from the respective play store. But none of the official applications are available for Desktop systems like Ubuntu. Even you can access it in the web browser, but sometimes we need a desktop application that provides easy to use interface.

    In this tutorial, we will help you with installing Facebook Messenger on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS system.

    Prerequisities

    Assuming you have desktop system access with sudo privileged account.

    Download Franz Application

    You can download the Facebook Messenger application for your Ubuntu system directly from its Github releases pages. Click on the below image to open the Github page and download the Debian package (.dpkg) file as per your operating system architecture.

    Franz App Download Page
    Franz App Download Page

    Alternatively uses the following command to download Franz 5.7.0 via the system terminal.

    https://github.com/meetfranz/franz/releases/download/v5.7.0/franz_5.7.0_amd64.deb 
    

    Installing Franz

    Use the dpkg package manager application to install the downloaded package on your system. Run the following command to install the Franz package.

    sudo dpkg -i franz_5.7.0_amd64.deb  
    

    This will install the application on your system. In some cases, if the installation failed due to dependencies you need to run sudo apt install -f command to finish the installation.

    Using Facebook Messenger

    Launch the Fraz messenger application from the launcher button under the Applications.

    Franz Social Media Messenger
    Franz Social Media Messenger

    Sign in with the existing account or create a new account. After login, you can add three social media networks freely. To add more social networks, you need to pay for that.

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    12 Comments

    1. chris on September 19, 2021 2:15 am

      won’t work for me thanks

      Reply
    2. mario on June 6, 2021 11:13 am

      it does not work on ubuntu 21.04 because a necessary package needed to run it has been removed on ubuntu 21.04

      Reply
    3. ROBERT BUDACH on November 16, 2020 2:50 pm

      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

      Reply
    4. Balazs on January 30, 2020 11:01 am

      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.

      Reply
    5. gary on September 27, 2019 1:03 pm

      Thank you. Works for me on Linux Mint 19 x64

      Reply
    6. gary on September 27, 2019 12:46 pm

      Just want to say what a neat & friendly site. I love it. well done.

      Reply
    7. alex on May 22, 2019 6:07 am

      thank you buddy this version works great …. thanks (DEB/32)

      Reply
    8. J on February 4, 2019 6:30 am

      Hello Rahul,
      Well, am very much thankful for the instructions and links. It worked perfect for me.

      Thanks Bro… Best Wishes…

      Reply
    9. Matt on September 24, 2018 3:11 am

      The dev has dumped this project. Take a look at Caprine instead.
      https://github.com/sindresorhus/caprine

      Reply
    10. Elliot on June 9, 2018 2:49 am

      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

      Reply
    11. Alejandro Espejo on April 25, 2018 4:57 am

      Me indica éste error
      dpkg: error: opción -m desconocida

      Reply
      • José on April 26, 2018 4:35 am

        ejecuta con gdebi

        Reply

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