1 Gaim Plugin Installation
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.
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
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.
18 Therefore, there are only two things which can be done:
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.
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
32 Because of AOL, Gaim had to switch name to Pidgin in 2007, which has
33 some effects on the above discussion. As of Dolda Connect 1.0, it is
34 possible to compile the plugin for Pidgin as well as for Gaim. Most
35 things still apply as they are, but some care must be taken. If you
36 decide to install the plugin in your home directory, the relevant
37 directory is now called $HOME/.purple/plugins. Also, the name of the
38 plugin is called libdolcon-purple.so, instead of libdolcon-gaim.so.
42 This document was last updated 2007-10-15, reflecting release 1.0 of