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

[Gangadhar Nittala]

I added the HKLM\Software\pidgin entry in the registry and the
installer was able to find the pidgin location and the installation
went fine. I was able to import my backed up .purple directory and the
known fingerprints were recognized. Thank you for your help Ian.

Also, I want to document the procedure for a non-installer version of
the plugin. Please let me know if the following steps are what the
installer does
1. Create a pidgin-otr folder to store the pidgin-otr specific files
2. Download the pidgin-otr-3.2.0 from here -
http://otr.cypherpunks.ca/binaries/windows/pidgin-otr-3.2.0.zip
3. Extract the contents of the folder into the pidgin-otr folder
4. Copy the pidgin-otr.dll to the plugins folder of the directory
where pidgin was installed

What I am not sure of though is
1. Are the locale entries required ? After the installation succeeded,
in the pidgin-otr folder I don't see the locale folder
2. How does pidgin know to check the otr_* files that are present in
the pidgin-otr installation directory ? I am not sure how pidgin uses
them.

Also, if you can please add a link on the home page to download the
Windows binaries too (alongside the source tarball), it will be
helpful.

Thanks a lot for your help,
Gangadhar

On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 11:48 AM, Ian Goldberg <ian at cypherpunks.ca> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 06, 2010 at 11:08:48AM -0400, Gangadhar Nittala wrote:
>> 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 ?
>
> The installer is looking in both HKLM and HKCU for Software\pidgin.
> So it looks like it should be finding the HKCU one.  I don't know why it
> wouldn't be.  But go ahead and try your idea and see if it works.
>
> If not, you may need to grab the zip file instead of the installer, and
> put the files in the right places yourself?
>
> http://otr.cypherpunks.ca/binaries/windows/pidgin-otr-3.2.0.zip
>
> [ http://otr.cypherpunks.ca/binaries/windows/pidgin-otr-3.2.0.zip.asc
> is the PGP signature for that file.]
>
>   - Ian
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