[Qgis-user] plugin installer with unstable internet connections

[Martin Dobias]

On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 12:11 AM, Alister Hood
<alister.hood at synergine.com> wrote:
>
> A shared directory *on a network server*?  Is there a standard way to
> point QGIS to it?
>

Yes. Use QGIS_PLUGINPATH environment variable to set additional paths
where to look for python plugins. Multiple paths can be separated by
semicolons (windows) or colons (unix).

The priorities when loading plugins are following:
1. plugins from QGIS_PLUGINPATH
2. plugins from user's home directory
3. plugins from qgis installation directory

Please note that plugin installer always saves newly downloaded
plugins to user's home directory.

Martin