[OTR-users] Pidgin can't find OTR plugin...

[Ian Goldberg]

On Sat, Sep 01, 2007 at 09:24:40AM +1200, Chakat Sandwalker wrote:
> I run Ubuntu Feisty Fawn (7.04), with Pidgin 2.10, and I can/not/ figure 
> out how to get the OTR plugin working.  I even reinstalled Pidgin to its 
> default location (/usr/local/bin I think), and the plugin to its default 
> location.  I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong; I don't get any errors in 
> compiling (well, I didn't after I moved Pidgin).  Does the plugin have 
> to be installed in a particular place for Pidgin to recognise it?  If 
> so, where?  I gave up after nearly an hour of trying.  -.-  Hopefully 
> someone here can make sense of this.  I'm not a newbie to compiling from 
> source, but when the instructions aren't very specific, it's frustrating.

What does "pidign -d" tell you?  The most common issues are:

- You need to make sure you're using both pidgin-otr 3.1.0 and libotr
  3.1.0.

- You installed libotr into /usr/local/lib, but that directory isn't
  listed in your /etc/ld.so.conf.

   - Ian