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SunnyFlopper

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Registered: 2020-02-02

Posts: 7

[Solved] Weechat error: cannot set locale; unable to load plugins

Hello, I'm trying to connect to irc for the first time & get this error upon opening weechat
         

│22:49:38 =!= | Warning: cannot set the locale; make sure $LANG and
│             | $LC_* variables are correct
│22:49:38 =!= | Error: unable to load plugin
│             | "/usr/lib/weechat/plugins/spell.so": libaspell.so.15:
│             | cannot open shared object file: No such file or
│             | directory
│22:49:38 =!= | If you're trying to load a script and not a C plugin,
│             | try command to load scripts (/perl, /python, ...)
│22:49:38 =!= | Error: unable to load plugin
│             | "/usr/lib/weechat/plugins/tcl.so": libtcl.so: cannot
│             | open shared object file: No such file or directory
│22:49:38 =!= | If you're trying to load a script and not a C plugin,
│             | try command to load scripts (/perl, /python, ...)
│22:49:38 =!= | Error: unable to load plugin
│             | "/usr/lib/weechat/plugins/ruby.so": libruby.so.2.7:
│             | cannot open shared object file: No such file or
│             | directory
│22:49:38 =!= | If you're trying to load a script and not a C plugin,
│             | try command to load scripts (/perl, /python, ...)
│22:49:38     | Plugins loaded: alias, buflist, charset, exec, fifo,
│             | fset, guile, irc, logger, lua, perl, python, relay,
│             | script, trigger, xfer

My locale.conf file contains the text:

LANG=en-US.UTF-8

are the "unable to load plugin" errors related to the locale issue?

Last edited by SunnyFlopper (2020-02-03 11:06:22)

SunnyFlopper

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Registered: 2020-02-02

Posts: 7

Re: [Solved] Weechat error: cannot set locale; unable to load plugins

I've managed to fix the locale error, Idk what exactly fixed the problem, I tried a couple things related to locale-gen, & running locale showed that it removed the problem, yet in weechat the problem still persisted, & even in another terminal running "locale" still showed error . Since "locale" worked in one terminal & not the other, I opted to re-boot & viola, the locale error was gone from weechat.

Yet I still have these "unable to load plugin" errors in weechat

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 21,811

Re: [Solved] Weechat error: cannot set locale; unable to load plugins

weechat has optional dependencies, read

pacman -Qi weechat

and also please wrap output like the above in [ code ] [ /code ] tags

SunnyFlopper

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Registered: 2020-02-02

Posts: 7

Re: [Solved] Weechat error: cannot set locale; unable to load plugins

Ah thanks alot m8. Are they important plugins? or can I ignore them until I would ever need them?

SunnyFlopper

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Registered: 2020-02-02

Posts: 7

Re: [Solved] Weechat error: cannot set locale; unable to load plugins

Ah thanks alot m8. Are they important plugins? or can I ignore them until I would ever need them?

nvm, I re-read the previous reply & yes I see that they are optional. Thanks.

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 21,811

Re: [Solved] Weechat error: cannot set locale; unable to load plugins

They are for scripting things within weechat, if you never intend to write a script you won't need them.

And aspell is for spell checking.

FWIW if the locale warning is correct you will want to fix that regardless: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Locale

if this is [SOLVED] please edit the title in your first post.

eschwartz

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Registered: 2014-08-08

Posts: 4,097

Re: [Solved] Weechat error: cannot set locale; unable to load plugins

They are for scripting things within weechat, if you never intend to write a script you won't need them.

s/write a script/install a third-party script using the builtin script search-and-download tool/

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