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blake

Member

Registered: 2011-05-19

Posts: 17

XChat Plugins

I have XChat, and XChat-Plugin installed, but the directory that XChat is looking for them (/usr/lib/xchat/plugins/ doesn't exist. In fact /usr/lib/xchat/ doesn't exist. I don't know where the plugins get installed to when using tazpkg get-install xchat-plugin. I'm mainly looking to get Perl support for the plugins.

Trixar_za

Administrator

Registered: 2011-03-29

Posts: 1,506

Re: XChat Plugins

Actually XChat-Plugin and XChat packages are exactly the same save for one option at compile.

Basically XChat doesn't support the plugin modules, while XChat-Plugin does. The problem is normally find and adding these modules manually. I personally got mine from the Ubuntu XChat package which I converted and unpacked to get at them. The python module worked out of the box, while TCL required a symlink. I couldn't get perl to run at all unfortunately. This is still back on Stable though and when this was tried with Cooking it didn't work.

I think the easiest would be to compile XChat yourself and enable all the options you need. I'll try to find a solution for it when I move to SliTaz 4 when it comes out.

blake

Member

Registered: 2011-05-19

Posts: 17

Re: XChat Plugins

I just wanted to update that I got everything working. It required some dependencies, like xorg-libXua-dev, and of course perl-dev, python-dev, and tcl-dev. I wouldn't mind fixing the current release for SliTaz, and indeed did look into doing the receipt for it, but I got confused, as I haven't done anything like that before. If you'd like to point me in the right direction, I'd be more than happy to update it for everyone else.