pidgin wont use plugins in /.purple/plugins

[Fernando Miguel]

Binary package hint: pidgin

there is a user dir ($HOME/.purple/plugins) where a user can add plugins that only he uses them.
But I've tried placing there several different plugins and none show up on Pidgin Plugin manager!

[Daniel W. Green (octoberdan-gmail)]

What version of pidgin did you observe this in? Is it a plugin written in C or Perl? What's your output to "pidgin -d" run from the command line? Could you also please attach a test plugin that didn't work for you so that one of us can try it?

[Fernando Miguel (fernandomiguel)]

Daniel this was with an older version of pidgin (2.5.X)
Will try again in a few days, and post back

[Daniel W. Green (octoberdan-gmail)]

I have the attached Perl script running in version 2.5.1

daniel@discord:~$ pidgin --version
Pidgin 2.5.1

Try running pidgin with -d. The output is useful for debugging, if you
pipe it to a file (pidgin -d > pidgin.log) you can attach it so we can
take a look. If you also attach your plugin I can check it against my
known good environment.

On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 3:03 PM, BUGabundo <email address hidden> wrote:
> Daniel this was with an older version of pidgin (2.5.X)
> Will try again in a few days, and post back
>
> --
> pidgin wont use plugins in /.purple/plugins
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/292659
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> of the bug.
>
> Status in "pidgin" source package in Ubuntu: New
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: pidgin
>
> there is a user dir ($HOME/.purple/plugins) where a user can add plugins that only he uses them.
> But I've tried placing there several different plugins and none show up on Pidgin Plugin manager!
>

[Fernando Miguel (fernandomiguel)]

i'll try this next time I have to try a plugin.
plus that debug log will contain sensitive information

[J. Austin Rodriguez (jeanaustinr)]

We'd like to figure out what's causing this bug for you, but we haven't heard back from you in a while. Could you please provide the requested information? Thanks!

[Fernando Miguel (fernandomiguel)]

i have no longer access to the plugins i was testing.
not sure fixed or not

[J. Austin Rodriguez (jeanaustinr)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. However, we were not able to replicate the bug and therefore we are marking this report as "Invalid". Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Again, thank you!