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

[Chakat Sandwalker]

Well, pidgin -d tells me a lot of stuff, most of which I can't 
intepret.  Exactly what is it that I'm looking for?  Any particular line 
or strings?

And I downloaded and compiled/installed the 3.1.0 versions of the 
libraries from the website.  I also ran /sbin/ldconfig and added 
'include /usr/local/lib' to /etc/ld.so.conf.  I've always had trouble 
getting new libraries recognised.

Sandy


Ian Goldberg wrote:
> 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.
>