Messenger for Desktop is a wrapper for the official client messenger.com. Therefore it works like a regular browser which can only navigate to the messenger.com web app. MFD doesn’t touch your messages, account or personal data. All that is handled securely by Facebook.
This article assumes you have at least basic knowledge of linux, know how to use the shell, and most importantly, you host your site on your own VPS. The installation is quite simple and assumes you are running in the root account, if not you may need to add ‘sudo’ to the commands to get root privileges. I will show you through the step by step installation Facebook Messenger Desktop on a Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial Xerus) server.
Install Facebook Messenger Desktop on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
Step 1. First make sure that all your system packages are up-to-date by running these following apt-get commands in the terminal.
sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get upgrade
Step 2. Installing Facebook Messenger Desktop.
First, Download the deb package from this page and run the following commands to install Facebook Messenger Desktop on Ubuntu systems:
sudo apt-get install gdebi wget https://github.com/aluxian/Messenger-for-Desktop/releases/download/v2.0.9/messengerfordesktop-2.0.9-linux-amd64.deb sudo dpkg -i messengerfordesktop*.deb
Once installed, Facebook Messenger Desktop can be started from Unity Dash or your preferred app launcher or from the terminal:
messengerfordesktop
Congratulation’s! You have successfully installed Facebook Messenger App. Thanks for using this tutorial for installing Facebook Messenger Desktop on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) system. For additional help or useful information, we recommend you to check the official Facebook Messenger Desktop web site.