Need assistance with Purple Plugin Pack and group IM feature.

[Joe Tadros]

Thank you this worked!


It's better to be right than smart.
 
 

> Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2011 16:55:15 +0100
> From: bdm at fenrir.org.uk
> To: support at pidgin.im
> CC: dkman610 at hotmail.com
> Subject: Re: Need assistance with Purple Plugin Pack and group IM feature.
> 
> On Wed, 17 Aug 2011 10:30:59 -0500
> Joe Tadros <dkman610 at hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Hi Brian and thank you!
> > I am the administrator/builder of this machine, I have no other profiles
> > on this computer.  I have the pidgin purple plugin pack, and do not
> > see any .dll files in that folder.
> > 
> 
> OK, well first please would you reply to the mailing list address, not
> directly to me (no Cc: needed either thanks) as then this exchange is
> archived so that others can see the answers to their questions in the
> list archives.
> 
> If you have no dlls in the plugins directory (actually check that there
> are none in the Program Files (x86)\pidgin\plugins directory as Pidgin
> on Windows is a 32 bit program and will have installed there) then
> this is why it isn't working for you.
> 
> If there is still nothing there, that is puzzling as Pidgin will have
> put some dlls there for the plugins that come with the basic program,
> but that could be down to the (x86) part of the path as I mentioned
> above.
> 
> What you need to do is to download the zip file with the plugin pack
> dlls contained within it (you probably have this already), then extract
> those files into the above mentioned directory and restart Pidgin. Then
> you will need to open the plugin list using Tools->Plugins and enable
> and configure those plugins that you wish to have available.
> 
> HTH.
> 
> > 
> > 
> > It's better to be right than smart.
> >  
> 
> We live in hope that we might become smart one day, it's just a shame
> that so few of those that are stand for election.
> 
> >  
> > 
> > > Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2011 16:15:30 +0100
> > > From: bdm at fenrir.org.uk
> > > To: support at pidgin.im
> > > Subject: Re: Need assistance with Purple Plugin Pack and group IM feature.
> > > 
> > > On Wed, 17 Aug 2011 09:41:57 -0500
> > > Joe Tadros <dkman610 at hotmail.com> wrote:
> > > 
> > > > I set up my group 
> > > > (or Pidgin did it for me) and when I right click on it, I should be able
> > > >  to send a message to everyone in the group, however I cannot do this 
> > > > and I have the purple pack on the computer but maybe didn't install it 
> > > > correctly?
> > > 
> > > Is this a function requiring a plugin? Did you enable the plugin from
> > > the Tools->Plugins menu? Do you have the privileges to copy the plugin
> > > dlls to the Program Files/Pidgin/plugins directory?
> > > 
> > > Will try to help further if you can respond to these questions?
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> 
> Brian Morrison
> 
>                 "I am not young enough to know everything"
>                                                           Oscar Wilde
 		 	   		  
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