Activate plug-ins on conda version of QGIS

[barnabasharris]

After successful installation, I'm trying to activate plug-ins in a fresh, conda (actually, micromamba) installed version of QGIS.

The plug-ins dir is here: /home/user/mm/envs/qgis/plugins

general QGIS folder structure is:

(qgis) [user@login01 qgis]$ find . -maxdepth 1
.
./mkspecs
./cmake
./ssl
./x86_64-conda-linux-gnu
./qml
./doc
./var
./plugins
./man
./libexec
./x86_64-conda_cos6-linux-gnu
./conda-meta
./pkgconfig
./phrasebooks
./docs
./compiler_compat
./qsci
./bin
./include
./fonts
./share
./etc
./sbin
./translations
./lib

Output from qgis-plugin-manager list

QGIS version : 3.22.11
List all plugins in /lustre/home/user/mm/envs/qgis/plugins

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|  Folder ⬇  |  Name                      |  Version  |  Flags   |  QGIS min  |  QGIS max  |  Author                                                 |  Folder rights  |  Action ⚠  |
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|mmqgis      |mmqgis                      |2021.9.10  |          |2.99        |3.99        |Michael Minn                                             |user : 0o755  |   |
|rvt-qgis    |Relief Visualization Toolbox|0.9.4.1    |Processing|3.0         |            |ZRC SAZU and University of Ljubljana (UL FGG), Žiga Maroh|user : 0o755  |   |
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Yet when I call qgis_process list, this plug-in is not listed in the providers.

Any way I can the plug-in to appear to qgis_process ?

[Gustry]

In QGIS Desktop, plugins need to be "activated". Similar to the checkbox you have in your graphical QGIS plugin manager. The plugin is installed on the computer but not activated (not checked).

In QGIS Server, plugins needs to be in a folder only.

To simulate the checkbox, in your QGIS3.ini file, you should have a section like this :

[PythonPlugins]
rvt-qgis=true
mmqgis=true

The readme can be updated. Not sure if this tool can find and edit the INI file. It doesn't know if you are on desktop or server.

[barnabasharris]

Hi thank you for the explanation but I cannot find the QGIS3.ini file - where is it located in my directory structure?

[Gustry]

https://docs.qgis.org/3.22/en/docs/user_manual/introduction/qgis_configuration.html#deploying-qgis-within-an-organization

In QGIS Desktop -> Settings -> Profile -> Open current profile folder, then it's in the QGIS folder for me.

[barnabasharris]

Thank you! Mine was located at: /home/user/.local/share/QGIS/QGIS3/profiles/default/QGIS/QGIS.ini

[barnabasharris]

QGIS.ini located at above location

[Gustry]

Keeping the ticket open for the readme and the idea.

[barnabasharris]

For completeness, I discovered that I should have been running / installing plug-ins using qgis-plugin-manager in the following directory: /home/user/.local/share/QGIS/QGIS3/profiles/default/python/plugins

[Gustry]

Yes indeed. Or use the environment variable QGIS_PLUGINPATH https://github.com/3liz/qgis-plugin-manager/blob/master/README.md#utilisation

[Gustry]

I have update the readme.md with 0589423 about these notes.