install doesn't enable plugin

[devnull]

Binary package hint: trac-accountmanager

installing trac-accountmanager doesn't enable the plugin

configuration:
ubuntu 9.04
apache2-mpm-worker
libapache2-mod-wsgi
postgresql
trac

steps performed (as root):
apt-get install trac-accountmanager (version: 0.2.1~vcs20081031-1ubuntu1)
/etc/init.d/apache2 restart
navigate to TRAC_ROOT_URL/admin/general/plugin
plugin doesn't show

confirmed that trac-spamfilter is shown after install using similar steps performed

[Tristan Schmelcher (tschmelcher)]

Same in 9.10. From looking at the package it appears to be completely broken. It does not actually contain the plugin, it contains the _source_ for the plugin. Trac plugins are .egg files and must be built with easy_install from python-setuptools. However, the trac-accountmanager package does not contain the setup.py script that easy_install requires to build it. So the package is essentially useless.

[anatoly techtonik (techtonik)]

Install doesn't enable plugins, because it knows nothing about your Trac environment. You need to enable plugins by editing your trac.conf or through web-admin.

There can be the other issue though - the plugin doesn't show in web-admin at all after installation. Is that the case?

[Tristan Schmelcher (tschmelcher)]

It is not possible to enable the plugin in the trac.conf or web-admin at all. To do that, the plugin's .egg file has to first be symlinked into the plugins subdirectory, but the trac-accountmanager package does not ship the .egg file, it ships the _source_ for the .egg file.

I can open a separate bug for this issue if you want.

[Martin (debacle)]

This bug is about a very old version of the package.
Can someone please close it?
Thanks!