[OTR-users] Make fails on otrproxy-0.3.1

Ian Goldberg ian at cypherpunks.ca
Tue Dec 11 19:02:05 EST 2007


On Tue, Dec 11, 2007 at 06:55:41PM -0500, Justin Polazzo wrote:
> > But ignoring that problem for a second: if you're using pidgin, why are
> > you using otrproxy as opposed to pidgin-otr?
> 
> I thought I had to use both? pidgin-otr for the snap-in (kinda like
> gaim-encryption), and otr-proxy for the proxy part of OTR?
> 
> Am I totally off base on this one? Is otrproxy only if you are doing
> command-line messaging?

You only need otrproxy if you're using an IM client that doesn't have
OTR support built in; something like iChat.  A whole bunch of IM clients
have OTR built in (or available as a plugin) like Adium X, pidgin,
Trillian, etc.

All you should have to do is install pidgin-otr, and enable it in
Pidgin's plugins window.

   - Ian



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