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Install Facebook Desktop App in Ubuntu 13.04

This is yet another version of Facebook on Ubuntu desktop, it looks much more like a desktop app than the Unity web-app dressed up as one.
The Desktop App for Facebook which display the Facebook website and offers many features like buttons for the friends, friend requests, messages, groups, games, notifications, interests and many other sites. There are also two buttons for different mobile versions. You can search for groups or people through the search bar.

This applicatiom is written in Python and GTK, designed with Glade and created with Quickly.
Facebook-desktop-app-ubuntu
Install the Facebook Desktop App:
The App depends on gir1.2-launchpad-integration-3.0 package which has been dropped in Ubuntu 13.04. So for Ubuntu 13.04 Raring, download following required packages from Quantal’s repository.
1. Download gir1.2-launchpad-integration-3.0: 32-bit | 64-bit
2. Download liblaunchpad-integration-3.0-1: 32-bit | 64-bit
3. Download liblaunchpad-integration-common: all
Hit Ctrl+Alt+T to open terminal, copy and paste following commands to install the downloaded packages:
sudo dpkg -i ~/Downloads/liblaunchpad-integration*.deb

sudo dpkg -i ~/gir1.2-launchpad-integration-3.0*.deb
Now, install Facebook App from the PPA repository (For Ubuntu 13.04 Raring, 12.10 Quantal, 12.04 Precise)
Copy and paste following commands into terminal and run one by one:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:folke-schwinning/personal

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install desktop-facebook
This will also work for Ubuntu 13.10 Saucy. Once installed, launch it from the Unity Dash Home.
Facebook-unity-dash
Enjoy!

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