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

[Gangadhar Nittala]

Thank you for the reply Ian. I checked the registry and the pidgin key
is available here
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\pidgin
And the (Default) key is set to the location of the pidgin
installation - C:\Users\username\program files\Pidgin

The HKLM (which IIRC) was the location for the earlier installations
doesn't seem to have the key
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\pidgin - doesn't exist.

I am not sure if this is something the pidgin folks changed recently.
Should I create an entry in HKLM\Software\pidgin identical to the one
in HKCU\Software\pidgin ? Would that be enough to install the plugin ?

Thank you
Gangadhar

On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 10:29 AM, Ian Goldberg <ian at cypherpunks.ca> wrote:
> 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
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