Local installation of plugins

[Jan Kotuc]

Hello people,

i'd like to install some plugins for Pidgin on a Linux machine, on which
I don't have root privileges, and I can't find any comprehensive howto
to help me on the way. For instance, in know how to build libotr and
pidgin-otr in my homedir, but that doesn't solve my problems, since I
have no idea how to tell Pidgin where to look for those newly built
plugins. I'd welcome any help. TIA

jan