No OTR Plugin Listed for Pidgin
I cannot see the Off The Record plugin listed for Pidgin. Many other plugins are listed, though. Why isn't it there?
Do we have to manually download and install it ourselves?
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It's available here:
http://packages.trisquel.info/brigantia/pidgin-otr
Thank you, aloniv! I will know to check out that url in future for other Trisquel packages. :)
I received this error message when installing it:
Error: Dependency is not satisfiable: libotr2 (>= 3.2.0)
Does that mean there is no Trisquel libotr2 sufficiently new yet?
The package listed on http://packages.trisquel.info are exactly those available in the repositories of Trisquel. You should install them with the package management system.
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Which Trisquel version are you using? the link I provided is for version 5.5. You can find on this website older versions of pidgin-otr too. If you are using 5.5 just download the missing library from this website (libotr2).
I am using Trisquel 5.5 :)
I downloaded the pidgin-otr .deb file from that webpage. I double clicked on it. It gave me a warning:
A later version is available in a software channel
You are strongly advised to install the version from the software channel, since it is usually better supported.
So I went to the command line and tried:
sudo apt-get install pidgin-otr
But yet again I failed to connect to the archive. I have tried all the mirrors now.
If I install this older file from the webpage, will I get automatic update notifications for it when they become available? Or does that only happen when you install something from the channel?
Thank you!
After reading a few of your posts your main issue seems to be with your internet/proxy connection. The packages are in the repository.
Why did you download the package? There is a link on the right side of the page that says "install using apturl". You can click that and the package will install. I mean you can download it and install it but it seems easier to me to just click it.
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You will get updates if you install an older version yes. Anyway the newest version is in brigantia-updates which explains the "later version is available" message:
http://packages.trisquel.info/brigantia-updates/pidgin-otr
There is documentation on how to do this: chat encryption