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diff --git a/doc/plugins/install.mdwn b/doc/plugins/install.mdwn index 8ae1c8bde..e810d8777 100644 --- a/doc/plugins/install.mdwn +++ b/doc/plugins/install.mdwn @@ -8,14 +8,14 @@ inside the perl search path. For example, if your perl looks in `/usr/local/lib/site_perl` for modules, you can locally install ikiwiki plugins to `/usr/local/lib/site_perl/IkiWiki/Plugin` -You can use the `libdir` configuration option to add directories to the +You can use the `libdirs` and/or `libdir` configuration options to add +directories to the search path. For example, if you set `libdir` to `/home/you/.ikiwiki/`, -then ikiwiki will look for plugins in `/home/you/.ikiwiki/IkiWiki/Plugin`. This -configuration option can be either a string (for backward compatibility) or a -list of strings (to add several directories to the search path). +then ikiwiki will look for plugins in `/home/you/.ikiwiki/IkiWiki/Plugin`. Ikiwiki also supports plugins that are external programs. These are typically written in some other language than perl. Ikiwiki searches for -these in `/usr/lib/ikiwiki/plugins` by default. If `libdir` is set, it will -also look under that directory, for example in `/home/you/.ikiwiki/plugins`. +these in `/usr/lib/ikiwiki/plugins` by default. If `libdirs` or `libdir` are +set, it will also look under those directories, for example in +`/home/you/.ikiwiki/plugins`. Note that this type of plugin has to be executable for ikiwiki to use it. |