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Working with external plugins
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|qp| has very few executables out of the box. Most of the time, external
plugins need to be downloaded and installed in the ``$QP_ROOT/plugins``
directory.
Plugins are usually hosted in external repositories. To dowload a plugin,
the remote repository needs to be downloaded, and the plugins of the
repository can be selected for installation.
To download an external repository of plugins, run the following command:
.. code-block:: bash
qp_plugins download http://somewhere/over/the/rainbow/ext_repo
This downloads a copy of the repository of external plugins :file:`ext_repo`
in :file:`$QP_ROOT/plugins`.
The list of available uninstalled plugins can be seen using:
.. code-block:: bash
qp_plugins list -u
Now, the specific plugin :file:`ext_module` contained in the repository
:file:`ext_repo` can be installed using:
.. code-block:: bash
qp_plugins install ext_module
The module is now accessible via a symbolic link in :file:`$QP_ROOT/src`,
and can be compiled as any module, running |Ninja|.
To remove the module, run
.. code-block:: bash
qp_plugins uninstall ext_module