Where to install the optional plugins files of Opencpn with Ubuntu 12.4 LTS ?

Before I post this I have no prior experience with this product or have any idea what it even does. I just searched the web.

http://opencpn.org/ocpn/climatology_plugin

Shows that each plugin seems to reside in its own folder in
/usr/share/opencpn/plugins

Eg:
/usr/share/opencpn/plugins/climatology

Thank you Andrew for this answer. I could create the folder "plugins" in :

 *  /usr/share/opencpn/plugins
and then the folder "climatology" as per your example :

 * /usr/share/opencpn/plugins/climatology

But, I cannot download the plugins directly in the folder "climatology" nor I can copy it in this directory because I have not the permission. I tried to modify the permission (reading and writing) but it does not change anything.

Do you have any suggestion ?
Thank you again for your patience.
Best regards

Yves Marie PAGE
New Caledonia

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Objet : Re: [Question #247545]: Where to install the optional plugins files of Opencpn with Ubuntu 12.4 LTS ?

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actionparsnip proposed the following answer:
Before I post this I have no prior experience with this product or have
any idea what it even does. I just searched the web.

http://opencpn.org/ocpn/climatology_plugin

Shows that each plugin seems to reside in its own folder in
/usr/share/opencpn/plugins

Eg:
/usr/share/opencpn/plugins/climatology

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Excellent, I could copy the plugin "climatology" in /usr/share/opencpn/plugins/climatology

then I can read on the terminal :

 * ** (nautilus:6396): WARNING **: Could not inhibit power management: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NameHasNoOwner: Name "org.gnome.SessionManager" does not existand I can't open the file to install the module (no software able to open it).

Any suggestion ?

Yves Marie PAGE
New Caledonia

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Envoyé le : Vendredi 25 avril 2014 9h01
Objet : Re: [Question #247545]: Where to install the optional plugins files of Opencpn with Ubuntu 12.4 LTS ?

Your question #247545 on Ubuntu changed:
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/247545

    Status: Open => Answered

actionparsnip proposed the following answer:
sudo nautilus /usr/share/opencpn

You can now copy folders to it.

Funny how I could find all this out...despite never having used the
application or even know what it is......weird huh

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Actually, in my computer, the plugins for opencpn are not located in
/usr/share/opencpn
but in the following folder :
/usr/lib/opencpn
I simply copy the download of the new plugins in this last folder ans it works :

sudo nautilus /usr/lib/opencpn

Thank you to Andrew for his help
Yves (New Caledonia)