Some plugins are bundled with the all-in-one installer for Windows or Mac OS X. To view the plugins already installed, follow the instructions below.
From within Bazaar Explorer 0.10.0 or later:
Bazzar ‣ Plugins
From within Bazaar Explorer 0.9.0 or earlier:
Tools ‣ Plugins
From the command line:
Homebzr plugins
Some plugins come pre-packaged, particularly when they have third-party dependencies (such as C libraries). Try the package manager on your operating system or look for a custom installer on Windows.
In many cases, it’s fine to install a plugin by hand into your personal plugins area:
Note
You can override this location by setting the environment variable BZR_PLUGIN_PATH to a directory that contains plugins.
The general recipe is:
cd <plugins-area>
bzr branch lp:bzr-xxx-yyy xxx_yyy
If the plugin isn’t hosted on Launchpad, provide the full branch location given in the registry for that plugin.
In some cases, you may also need to run setup.py:
python setup.py build_ext -i
This compiles C extensions, builds man pages and executes whatever other magic is appropriate for the plugin to be correctly installed.
If a plugin provided tests, you can typically run those tests using:
bzr selftest xxx
Note
This actually finds all tests including xxx in their name. If the above command runs more tests than you expected, try:
bzr selftest bp.xxx
All plugins should provide basic help. The command to view the help for plugin xxx is:
bzr help xxx
If xxx is a command name, you’ll need to be more explicit to get the top level help:
bzr help plugin/xxx
Help for many popular plugins is available on the web in the Plugins Guide, http://doc.bazaar-vcs.org/plugins/en/.