It's also possible to do this through an emulator like Genymotion, but I think that's gonna emulate ARM architecture, so I'm pretty sure it will be much more resource hungry and/or slow compared to the x86 hypervisors. You'll be able to activate it through receiving an SMS to your cellphone. Therefore, the last resort I can think of is to install Android x86 or Remix OS in VirtualBox and install Whatsapp from an APK there. Unfortunately, the result of that seems to be the opposite problem from the one you're having with Pidgin! The first way I thought of doing this was through Google Chrome, which can run many Android apps through some tweaks. You just register with an SMS once, and you are good. It doesn't need the SIM card to be in the same device.
Therefore, the best way to do this is to somehow run the actual Android app on your desktop. It needs constant connection to a smartphone client in order to work. That's because it works exacty like their web app. Whatsapp's official desktop client for Windows doesn't help us, even if we were to run it under Wine.
TL DR: Run it on Android x86 in VirtualBox with limited resources allocated to it, and hook that up with the web app or desktop client to have a desktop interface. So using this Pidgin plugin is not an option any more. The package pidgin-whatsapp got discontinued, its developer gave up trying to handle Whatsapp's attempts to block unofficial clients.
The debug output of pidgin also seems to show incoming messages, but they simply don't get displayed.Īny ideas how I could fix that? I just wrote a bug report on GitHub against the pidgin-whatsapp package so far. I can receive images and see typing notifications however. I managed to set Pidgin (with pidgin-whatsapp 0.8.4 from ppa:whatsapp-purple/ppa) up to be able to contact friends and send them text messages, but I can't receive any text messages. Is there any chance to use Whatsapp under those circumstances? How do I set it up and register an account? I can only use a normal cellphone to e.g. What I need is a way to run any Whatsapp client on my Ubuntu (64bit, currently 15.10) desktop that allows me to register an account without requiring an existing one or the use of a smartphone. I currently don't own a proper smartphone that would be capable of running Whatsapp, and I don't have an account there yet.
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