Programmatically remove/add plugin and or repositories as post install

[chourmovs]

> a good explanation why I didn't found anything and why thousands of "non
> logitech" users begin their post install by removing most of the plugins
> for years without complaining

Haha... I did indeed turn off a few plugins by default in 8.3. But I
still think it's better if the user who cares can disable stuff he
doesn't want, rather than have the beginner try to figure out which
plugin he wants.

If you want to disable some default plugins, and you're working on your
own fork anyway, you could simply change the "defaultState" in the
corresponding install.xml file.

[chourmovs]

Programmatically remove/add plugin and or repositories as post install

Hi,

I'm today developing a script to install LMS on a headless server and I would like to keep reference to the official repo of LMS while changing the plugin installed by default and adding new ones to avoid painful or unwanted configuration to basic user.
Is there a way to perform the trick via CLI, API call or by altering config file the good old way ?

Hope this is clear enough

Thank you by advance for your kind support

Vincent S

[mherger]

Programmatically remove/add pluginand or repositories as post install

There's no well defined or documented way to manage plugins outside the
web UI. But what I could imagine might work is to edit the
plugin/state.prefs file inside your LMS' prefs folder. Look what the web
UI does when you try to install a plugin, then do this in your script:

- install a plugin in LMS
- do NOT restart LMS when asked to do so, but shut it down
- look at the above file and what state it has for the freshly added plugin
- apply the same state to any other plugin you want to install
- start LMS

Hopefully this would automatically install the plugins. I'm not sure
this will work without looking at the code. Maybe you'd have to download
the plugin downloadable files yourself beforehand. But basically that's
the way I'd imagine could work.

[chourmovs]

Thank you Michael, I will try your way and will do the same with new repository.
I'm surprised that even you dont know exactly how plugin works outside web ui
a good explanation why I didn't found anything and why thousands of "non logitech" users begin their post install by removing most of the plugins for years without complaining