[OTR-users] otr plugin doesn't show up

[Ian Goldberg]

On Sat, Apr 01, 2006 at 10:57:29PM -0500, Faber wrote:
> I compiled and installed gaim, and then downloaded libotr and the otr
> plugin, and compiled/installed them (both as root, iirc).  I started
> gaim, and went to the preferences page -- otr hadn't shown up as a
> plugin.  so, I ran gaim with the -d (debug) option, and got the
> following lines as it loaded plugins:
> 
> plugins: probing /usr/local/lib/gaim/gaim-otr.so
> plugins: /usr/local/lib/gaim/gaim-otr.so is unloadable: libotr.so.2:
> cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
> plugins: probing /usr/local/lib/gaim/gaim-otr.la
> 
> 
> Any ideas?

Did you remember to patch gaim-otr so that it will work with gaim2?
http://www.cypherpunks.ca/otr/gaim2b2-otr.diff

What does "ldd /usr/local/lib/gaim/gaim-otr.so" say?

   - Ian