Help with Trac Plugins

[Patty Cottrill]

I need help with Trac plugins.

 

I have a shared plugins directory that I point to in each Trac project’s trac.ini:

[inherit]

htdocs_dir = /home/trac/tracshare/htdocs/shared

plugins_dir = /home/trac/plugins

templates_dir =

 

Some projects also have plugins installed in their individual plugins directory.

The plugins in the individual projects are NOT included in the shared directory.

One of the plugins is the Trac Account Manager plugin; same version on all individual projects.

 

I would like to install the Trac Account Manager plugin in the shared directory, since I’m now using the plugin on all projects.

 

1. What is the best procedure for doing this?
2. Can I just copy the Account Manager plugin to the shared folder?
3. If so, will I need to delete it from each project’s plugin folder?

 

I am running Trac 1.2.3

 

Thank you in advance for your help.

 

Best,

Patty Cottrill

 

 

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[Jun Omae]

Hi,

On Sat, Jun 13, 2026 at 12:23 PM 'Patty Cottrill' via Trac Users
<trac-...@googlegroups.com> wrote:
>
> I need help with Trac plugins.
>
> I have a shared plugins directory that I point to in each Trac project’s trac.ini:
> [inherit]
> htdocs_dir = /home/trac/tracshare/htdocs/shared
> plugins_dir = /home/trac/plugins
> templates_dir =
>
> Some projects also have plugins installed in their individual plugins directory.
> The plugins in the individual projects are NOT included in the shared directory.
> One of the plugins is the Trac Account Manager plugin; same version on all individual projects.
>
> I would like to install the Trac Account Manager plugin in the shared directory, since I’m now using the plugin on all projects.

I guess that you're using TRAC_ENV_PARENT_DIR. All plugins in the
individual projects are loaded for all projects. You can confirm that
all plugins are loaded in admin/general/plugin page of each project.

> What is the best procedure for doing this?

I recommend that installing such plugins to site-packages in the virtualenv.

$ virtualenv /path/to/venv
$ . /path/to/venv/bin/activate
$ pip install svn+https://trac-hacks.org/svn/accountmanagerplugin/trunk

See also https://trac-hacks.org/wiki/TracPlugins#Forallprojects

> Can I just copy the Account Manager plugin to the shared folder?

If you want to install plugins to the directory which configured in
"[inherit] plugins_dir" option, you can copy the egg file that built
from the source to the directory.

$ python setup.py bdist_egg
$ cp dist/*.egg /home/trac/plugins/

> If so, will I need to delete it from each project’s plugin folder?

Yes. The "plugins" directory of each project must be empty if you're
using TRAC_ENV_PARENT_DIR.

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Jun Omae <jun...@gmail.com> (大前 潤)