[OTR-users] Trouble getting OTR-Pidgin to appear in plugin list after successful compile (Linux)

[Ian Goldberg]

On Thu, Jan 02, 2014 at 09:02:07PM +0200, Finhosting wrote:
> Interesting...
> 
> for the user where I copied the pidgin-otr.so file into the user's plugins directory, I see this:
> 
> (20:47:01) plugins: probing /home/xxxx/.purple/plugins/pidgin-otr.so
> (20:47:01) plugins: /home/xxxx/.purple/plugins/pidgin-otr.so is not loadable: libotr.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
> 
> 
> But the libotr library file does seem to be hanging out where one might expect.
> 
> 
> [XXXXXXXXX]$ ls /usr/local/lib/libotr*
> /usr/local/lib/libotr.a  /usr/local/lib/libotr.la  /usr/local/lib/libotr.so  /usr/local/lib/libotr.so.5  /usr/local/lib/libotr.so.5.0.0
> 
> 
> A link in this case.
> 
> [XXXXXXXXX]$ ls -lah /usr/local/lib/libotr.so.5
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 Jan  2 04:29 /usr/local/lib/libotr.so.5 -> libotr.so.5.0.0

Do you have /usr/local/lib in your /etc/ld.so.conf ?  It's not there by
default in all Linux distros.  (Or did you not run ldconfig after
installing the library into /usr/local/lib?)

> For a user where I did not copy pidgin-otr.so into the user's plugins
> directory, there's no mention of pidgin-otr when I run pidgin -d.

Does pidgin say where it's looking for plugins?

   - Ian