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

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On 01/03/2014 03:54 AM, Ian Goldberg wrote:

> 
> 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?)
> 

That fixed it for the user who had the plugin moved into the plugins dir. I'd added some other directory there, like /usr/local/lib/pidgin . Go figure..


>> 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?
> 

I see now that it's looking in /usr/lib64/pidgin/ (and the otr stuff was not there) . Copying libotr and otr-pidgin there made the plugin available for all the
other users.

yay thx for the help!!!!!



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