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| author | João Valverde <joao.valverde@tecnico.ulisboa.pt> | 2017-09-19 12:12:31 +0100 |
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| committer | João Valverde <j@v6e.pt> | 2017-09-20 17:07:47 +0000 |
| commit | 6be572006e5618aae3c59cb1b9a56cdf6e1e49a1 (patch) | |
| tree | 567bbe7fff27a0c8186a0081b700ba13c4beee4c /docbook | |
| parent | 25ba538bc50ff3a824185cca532f4e0feb4f8ec4 (diff) | |
plugins: Add backward compatibility for personal lua scripts
Relax requirements for upgrades and make running side-by-side installations
more convenient.
Change-Id: I5299eed005a4748c54465dec90f477adb577e056
Reviewed-on: https://code.wireshark.org/review/23619
Petri-Dish: João Valverde <j@v6e.pt>
Tested-by: Petri Dish Buildbot <buildbot-no-reply@wireshark.org>
Reviewed-by: João Valverde <j@v6e.pt>
Diffstat (limited to 'docbook')
| -rw-r--r-- | docbook/wsug_src/WSUG_app_files.asciidoc | 9 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/docbook/wsug_src/WSUG_app_files.asciidoc b/docbook/wsug_src/WSUG_app_files.asciidoc index 16834ac2b0..53deb2be80 100644 --- a/docbook/wsug_src/WSUG_app_files.asciidoc +++ b/docbook/wsug_src/WSUG_app_files.asciidoc @@ -473,6 +473,15 @@ On Unix-like systems: * The personal plugin folder is ++~/.local/lib/wireshark/plugins++. +[NOTE] +==== +To provide better support for binary plugins this folder changed in Wireshark 2.5. +It is recommended to use the new folder but *for lua scripts only* you may +continue to use __XDG_CONFIG_HOME__++/wireshark/plugins++ for backward-compatibility. +This is useful to have older versions of Wireshark installed side-by-side. In case +of duplicate file names between old and new the new folder wins. +==== + * If you are running on macOS and Wireshark is installed as an application bundle, the global plugin folder is _APPDIR_`/Contents/PlugIns/wireshark`, otherwise it's |