[OTR-users] Plugin does not show up in Pidgin

[Konrad Meyer]

Quoth Michael Goerz:
> On Thu, 03 Apr 2008, Brian Morrison wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 2 Apr 2008 22:41:46 -0400
> > Michael Goerz <goerz at physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote:
> > 
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > I tried to install the pidgin-otr-3.1.0 plugin from source on a SuSE
> > > 10.3 system, by doing
> > > configure
> > > make
> > > make install
> > > The output from all three commands is in the attachment. However, the
> > > Plugin does not appear in the Pidgin plugin list. This is Pidgin version
> > > 2.4.1, compiled from source. I already tried to create a symbolic link
> > > to
> > > /usr/local/lib/pidgin/pidgin-otr.so
> > > /usr/local/lib/pidgin/pidgin-otr.la
> > > in my ~/.purple/plugins folder, but that had no effect. Any advice?
> > 
> > I'm not familiar with the SuSE pidgin installation, but if pidgin is
> > not looking in /usr/local/lib/pidgin/ or ~/.purple/plugins then it
> > won't be seeing the .so files it wants, so that's the reason.
> It's not the standard SuSE installation (not the RPM from the package
> management) I installed the latest Pidgin from the source tgz.
> 
> There are working plugins in both these directories, which also show up
> in the Pidgin Plugin dialog.
> > 
> > You need to do something like rpm -qa | grep pidgin and see where
> > any .so files are by then doing rpm -ql <package-name> from the results
> > of the grep. You can modify the search path for libraries with
> > ldconfig, but the fundamental problem is the libraries are clearly not
> > where they should be.
> I wonder... they seem to be in the right directory.
> 
> > 
> > On Fedora 7 pidgin plugins are in /usr/lib64/pidgin
> > and /usr/lib64/purple-2, since SuSE and Fedora are rpm based it is
> > likely, although not certain, that their packages are set up in a
> > similar way.
> Yeah, but no RPM here.
> 
> Michael

Any reason you can't use the rpm provided by SuSE?


-- 
Konrad Meyer <konrad at tylerc.org>
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