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

[Chakat Sandwalker]

Never mind -- I recompiled the libotr, ran /sbin/ldconfig, then 
recompiled pidgin-otr with the --with-libotr-prefix option, 
and...bingo.  The plugin files finally showed up in /usr/local/lib/.  
Thanks for the suggestions, though.

Sandy



Chakat Sandwalker wrote:
> 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.
>>   
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