<H1>Shared Plugins</H1> <P>Plugins may be used by a range of different hosts. However, the host needs to be able to find the plugins. Hosts vary, however the recommended method uses the environment variable <CODE>LADSPA_PATH</CODE>. If present, this should contain a colon-separated path indicating directories that should be searched (in order) when loading plugin types.</P> <P>It is recommended for standard Linux distributions such as RedHat, that this plugin path should be <CODE>/home/<user>/.ladspa:/usr/local/lib/ladspa:/usr/lib/ladspa</CODE>. Plugins can then be installed into <CODE>/usr/local/lib/ladspa/</CODE> or <CODE>/usr/lib/ladspa/</CODE>.</P> <P>You may wish to add a line such as the following to your .bash_profile login file (if you use Bash): <CODE>export LADSPA_PATH=$LADSPA_PATH:/home/<user>/.ladspa:/usr/local/lib/ladspa:/usr/lib/ladspa</CODE></P> <P>To list the plugins that can be found on your <CODE>LADSPA_PATH</CODE>, run the <CODE>listplugins</CODE> program.</P>