html-tidy gedit: permissions issue possibly

**yakcamydna** · July 3rd, 2010

hi

fairly long while linux fan but only just getting down to the nitty gritty. have been trying to install the html-tidy plugin for gedit and seem to be hitting a wall.

i have followed the instructions for download on the following page:

http://www.eng.tau.ac.il/~atavory/gedit-plugins/html-tidy/#download_inst

i.e.

sudo apt-get install tidy

and then downloading and extracting the package.

i then succesfully moved the extracted html-tidy folder to /usr/share/gedit-2/plugins

(this took some fiddling and getting my head around the file system and terminal- i really never imagined that simply moving a file would make me smile that much

)

after this i then restarted gedit and looked in the edit-preferences-plugins tab but there is no option for html-tidy showing (i also noticed that there is no tab for semantic highlighting either and wondered if this could be related?)

next i did some searching and found this thread:

http://ubuntu-ky.ubuntuforums.org/sh....php?t=1028847

and following the instructions performed a :/usr/share/gedit-2/plugins$ sudo chmod 777 ./html-tidy

even so an: ls -al

revealed this;

drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2009-10-28 20:59 filebrowser
drwxrwxrwx 4 andy andy 4096 2007-07-02 22:43 html-tidy
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2009-10-20 05:05 indent

which to my uninitiated brain looks as if the permissions where not correctly changed.

I'm using Karmic Koala.

any ideas??

thanks,

Andy

**ionospheric** · January 3rd, 2011

Just as you did, I first placed the plugin in
/usr/share/gedit-2/plugins

and tried all the permission modifications as recommended-no change.

Once I placed the plugin in

~/.gnome2/gedit/plugins/

as the author suggests, it worked.

Some plugins work out of the first location (which makes it accessible to all users), this one doesn't.

**stevenvu** · January 31st, 2011

I've just installed html tidy. The instructions arn't the clearest.

When you extract the file, it'll create a folder. You need to go into the folder, copy all of those files and place them into the plugins folder.

Placing the folder that is originally extracted won't work.