[OTR-users] pidgin-otr installer unable to find pidgin on Windows

[Ian Goldberg]

On Mon, Sep 06, 2010 at 10:10:46AM -0400, Gangadhar Nittala wrote:
> All,
> 
> I have been using pidgin-otr for a while now. I just reinstalled my OS
> and so reinstalled pidgin too (pidgin 2.7.3). When I try to install
> pidgin-otr, the installer (this is Windows Vista) complains that it
> could not locate pidgin. When I installed pidgin-otr earlier I never
> faced this issue (I installed pidgin-otr on multiple Windows machines
> and never faced this problem).
> 
> Can you please let me know what I can do to make the pidgin-otr
> installer see the pidgin install location ? I didn't know how to get
> the debug output from the pidgin-otr installer for me to attach to the
> post.
> 
> OS: Windows Vista
> pidgin installation folder: c:\users\username\program files\pidgin
> 
> I checked the OTR site to look for DLL files that I could download and
> register, but there seem to be none. Can you please help ?

The installer seems to be looking for pidgin's installation directory
by checking the Software\pidgin registry entry.  Is that entry not
present for you?

   - Ian