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Why are there 3 roundcube directorys and which is the relevant one?

Started by femco, September 03, 2013, 07:51:40 PM

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femco

Hi, iam new to roundcube and a linux beginner. I just installed roundcube on my ubuntu 12.04 server via apt-get (apt-get install roundcube roundcube-mysql roundcube-plugins roundcube-plugins-extra).
I noticed that there are 3 roundcube directorys:
- /etc/roundcube
- /var/lib/roundcube
- /usr/share/roundcube

each contains a plugins directory and a main.inc.php,
i realised this as i tried to edit the plugins configuration inside the /etc/roundcube/plugins directorys, each plugin directory contains only an empty config.inc.php file with a reference to the /usr/share/roundcube/plugins/plugindir version.

I think i need some help here.
What is the purpose of these directorys? What is the reason that there are 3 of them?
And which one is the one i have to add new plugins or edit the main.inc.php?

ABerglund

That is something that the Ubuntu packagers have done. If you install from source (unpack the tarball, that's about it), it is totally self-contained in one directory. I'd also guess that the version supplied via apt-get is not fully current.
Arne Berglund
SysAdmin, Internet Services
Lane Education Service District
Eugene, OR, USA

femco

Ok thanks, it seems that there is not realy so much redundancy i thought it were, because everything important in /usr/share/roundcube is symlinked to /etc/roundcoube even the plugin config.inc.php files.
And most of the stuff in /var/lib is symlinked to /usr/share