No plugins directory in ~/.purple

[nivedhitha]

Hello,

I successfully completed installing pidgin (Home | Pidgin) from its source code. Now, I wish to enable a particular Transliteration plugin. I downloaded that plugin and successfully ran the make command for the same. The last step in the Readme of that plugin asks to copy a particular .so file to ~/.purple/plugins . This is where I get stuck.
Because there is no such directory by the name "plugins" under ~/.purple. There is a file by the name plugins though.
Now my requirement is to install this plugin in the directory it specifies and then enable the plugin from pidgin in Tools -> Pugins.

Request to help me.

Regards,
Nivedhitha

[coopstah13]

you just have to create the plugins directory manually then copy the .so file into it

[nivedhitha]

Thank you for your quick reply. However, i am not able to create a directory manually because of the following error:

# pwd
/root/.purple

# mkdir plugins
mkdir: cannot create directory `plugins': File exists

[coopstah13]

are you running pidgin as root? You should be creating a folder .purple/plugins under your own home directory, not root

[nivedhitha]

Thank you for your great help.
I created that directory for a normal user and everything is working great!

Thanks again