[Pkg-geany-team] Bug#728192: Bug#728192: geany-plugins: Plugins are not available via plugin-manager

[Evgeni Golov]

Hi Nahum,

On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 11:44:24AM +0100, Oz Nahum Tiram wrote:

> I installed geany-plugins and I did not see geany-pluginvc in the
> plugin manger.

Which versio of Geany were you using? Debians? Upstreams?

> Hence I download the upstream package and installed it.
> 
> I noticed that upstream installed the plugins to:
> 
>   /usr/local/lib/geany/geanyvc.so
> 
> Whereas the debian package installed the file to
> 
>   /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/geany/geanyvc.so
> 
> I remove the upstream package and created a link :
> 
> sudo ln -vs  /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/geany/geanyvc.so
> /usr/local/lib/geany/geanyvc.so
> 
> This made the vs plugin available.

Debians Geany looks in both, /usr/lib/geany/ and 
/usr/lib/<gnu-triplet>/geany/.

> So this issue can be relatively easily solved by:
> 
>   * Change the installed file path to the one expected by geany.
>     Probably violates Debian's policy.
>   * Reconfigure geany to search for the plugin in Debian's path.
>   * Create a link as part of the installation of the package,
>     remove the link if the package is removed.

As 2 is done, your problem lies somewhere else.

Greets
Evgeni

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