Pidgin: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 13:55, 22 October 2017

If you want to use pidgin with the OTR plugin, you will find out, that installing the plugin with nix-env -iA nixos.pidginotr does not work. The plugin doesn't appear in the plugin list.

To use it, you need to make a packageOverride.

Put this into ~/.config/nixpkgs/config.nix:

{
 packageOverrides = pkgs: rec {
  pidgin-with-plugins  = pkgs.pidgin-with-plugins.override {
       plugins = [ pkgs.pidginotr ];};
 };
}

Then you can install pidgin with nix-env -iA nixos.pidgin-with-plugins. This install will have the OTR plugin available.

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-If you want to use pidgin with the otr plugin, you will find out, that installing the plugin with
+If you want to use pidgin with the OTR plugin, you will find out, that installing the plugin with
 <code>nix-env -iA nixos.pidginotr</code>
 does not work. The plugin doesn't appear in the plugin list.
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 Then you can install pidgin with
-<code>nix-env -iA nixos.pidgin-with-plugins</code>. This install will then include pidginotr.
+<code>nix-env -iA nixos.pidgin-with-plugins</code>. This install will have the OTR plugin available.
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