Gaim Plugin Installation Because of how Gaim works, special care is required when installing the Dolda Connect chat plugin for Gaim. The basic problem is the same as with the GNOME applet, in that the set of directories that Gaim searches for plugins usually does not include the directories into which Dolda Connect is installed. However, the Gaim situation is even worse than that with GNOME, since Gaim cannot be configured to search additional directories. Therefore, the plugin file must be installed into one of the directories that Gaim does look in. As of version 2.0.0-beta6 of Gaim, Gaim searches only two directories: The `lib/gaim' directory in its installation prefix (usually `/usr/lib/gaim'), and the $HOME/.gaim/plugins directory. Therefore, there are only two things which can be done: 1. Install Dolda Connect in /usr. As mentioned in INSTALL.applet, this is ugly and not recommended, but it does work and is easy. 2. You must either copy, move, link or symlink the file libdolcon-gaim.so which Dolda Connect typically installs into /usr/local/lib/gaim into either ${gaim-prefix}/lib/gaim or $HOME/.gaim/plugins. For example, you can run the following command, which will work for most cases: ln -s /usr/local/lib/gaim/libdolcon-gaim.so $HOME/.gaim/plugins About Pidgin Because of AOL, Gaim had to switch name to Pidgin in 2007, which has some effects on the above discussion. As of Dolda Connect 1.0, it is possible to compile the plugin for Pidgin as well as for Gaim. Most things still apply as they are, but some care must be taken. If you decide to install the plugin in your home directory, the relevant directory is now called $HOME/.purple/plugins. Also, the name of the plugin is called libdolcon-purple.so, instead of libdolcon-gaim.so. This document was last updated 2007-10-15, reflecting release 1.0 of Dolda Connect.