[QGIS-Developer] Deploy plugin by setting QGIS_PLUGINPATH

[Zhang Qun]

Hi Patrick, thanks for the replay. It worked now if I set the env variable
to the parent folder of my plugin.

Thanks.

Best regards,
Zhang Qun

On Thu, Nov 16, 2017 at 6:47 PM, Patrick Dunford <enzedrailmaps at gmail.com>
wrote:

> There are sometimes reasons why this method may not work (I think Ubuntu
> does have a particular limitation in this regard)
>
> One option is you can create a shortcut on the menu and pass the variable
> value in that shortcut.
> For example one of the Qgis shortcuts on the Whiskers menu in XFCE on my
> computer uses this command to start a version of Qgis that I built from
> source and installed to a different path:
>
> env LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/home/patrick/apps/lib /home/patrick/apps/bin/qgis
>
> where env is passing that variable into the environment that Qgis starts
> with.
>
>
> On 16/11/17 23:33, Zhang Qun wrote:
>
> Dear all,
>
> I want to use the QGIS_PLUGINPATH environment variable to point to the
> directory where my plugin are located but did not manage to get it work.
>
> I'm on Ubuntu16.04 and running QGIS 2.18.
>
> I set the variable in terminal by:
> $ export QGIS_PLUGINPATH=~/QGIS_Plugins/rndf-editor/RNDFEditor/
>
> and launch the QGIS in this terminal (I guess in order to get the variable
> effective I have to run within the terminal right?)
>
> $ qgis
>
> But my plugin still did not get to show under the manu Plugin.
>
> Can anyone advise me the correct way to do it? Thanks.
>
> Best regards,
> Zhang Qun
>
>
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