Adding a plugin to Pidgin
 

I'm trying to add a plugin to Pidgin, but I'm not really shure how to do it...

I downloaded the binairy as a shared dll (.so) and copied it to the pidgin root folder (/usr/lib/pidgin/)... I was kinda hoping that would be sufficient, but (after restarting Pidgin) I still don't see the new plugin in the plugins-list.

What am I doing wrong, or what should I do next?

Use your package manager
 

I see you appear to be using Ubuntu. Run synaptic (package manager, or maybe it's called "software manager" or similar in Ubuntu), search for pidgin-plugin-pack, or just "pidgin" for an exhaustive list of everything you can install from the repos for pidgin.

If the particular plug-in that you're looking to install isn't covered by the repos it will help us to help you if we know which plugin we're talking about (ideally with a url to the source).

Sorry for the missing info...

Yes, I'm using Ubuntu.
The plugin is Music Tracker, which is afaik not one of those plugins.
http://code.google.com/p/pidgin-musictracker/

pidgin-musictracker
 

A brief search through the repositories using synaptic reveals the presence of package "pidgin-musictracker", which I believe fits the bill.

Wow, I have a synaptic package manager? :-P

(This is the newbie forum... I just started using Linux a few weeks ago... my OS knowledge at this moment only exists of Windows and MacOsX)

But that worked very well, thanks a lot!

PS;
Now I understand your previous post -> I thought you ment 'Ubuntu Software Center'; from where I installed Pidgin and from where you can also install some plugins...

No probs, Beekman.

The software centre is OK for general applications but for the full range of software and add-ons available you'll want to access the universe repostories and Synaptic is the most comfortable way of doing that.