| 1 | Gaim Plugin Installation |
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| 3 | Because of how Gaim works, special care is required when installing |
| 4 | the Dolda Connect chat plugin for Gaim. The basic problem is the same |
| 5 | as with the GNOME applet, in that the set of directories that Gaim |
| 6 | searches for plugins usually does not include the directories into |
| 7 | which Dolda Connect is installed. |
| 8 | |
| 9 | However, the Gaim situation is even worse than that with GNOME, since |
| 10 | Gaim cannot be configured to search additional directories. Therefore, |
| 11 | the plugin file must be installed into one of the directories that |
| 12 | Gaim does look in. |
| 13 | |
| 14 | As of version 2.0.0-beta6 of Gaim, Gaim searches only two directories: |
| 15 | The `lib/gaim' directory in its installation prefix (usually |
| 16 | `/usr/lib/gaim'), and the $HOME/.gaim/plugins directory. |
| 17 | |
| 18 | Therefore, there are only two things which can be done: |
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| 20 | 1. Install Dolda Connect in /usr. As mentioned in INSTALL.applet, this |
| 21 | is ugly and not recommended, but it does work and is easy. |
| 22 | |
| 23 | 2. You must either copy, move, link or symlink the file |
| 24 | libdolcon-gaim.so which Dolda Connect typically installs into |
| 25 | /usr/local/lib/gaim into either ${gaim-prefix}/lib/gaim or |
| 26 | $HOME/.gaim/plugins. For example, you can run the following command, |
| 27 | which will work for most cases: |
| 28 | ln -s /usr/local/lib/gaim/libdolcon-gaim.so $HOME/.gaim/plugins |
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| 32 | This document was last updated 2007-05-02, reflecting release 0.4 of |
| 33 | Dolda Connect. |