Installing Plug-in from Download Does Not Update Add-ons Manager Entry

[Random Void User]

Add-ons Manager tried to update Spell Checker, but kept failing on a slow Internet link (mostly DNS). I had to manually download it. CudaText installed the .zip file, but after restart, Add-ons Manager still thought it needed to update Spell Checker.

So I removed Spell Checker, quit CudaText, deleted __trash and __pycache__ under ./py folder, and re-launched. Installed Spell Checker from .zip again, quit, and re-launched. Add-ons Manager *still* thinks Spell Checker needs updating.

How do I tell Add-ons Manager that Spell Checker is current?

[main Alexey]

you need to edit the item in the settings/packages.ini.

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[plugin.Spell_Checker.zip]
d=py
f=cuda_spell_checker/
v=2025.11.22

why Cud did not update that file on installing from zip? it don't know the version.

[Random Void User]

CudaText 1.231.0.1, linux-x86_64-gtk2, fpc 3.2.3

The plug-in .zip file has no version data. So bypassing Add-ons Manager leaves CudaText no way to know. Plug-ins need version data inside their .zip archives. A field in the install.inf info stanza might work:

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[info]
title=Spell Checker
desc=Spell checker, based on Hunspell dictionaries. Shows red underlines for misspelled words, gives suggestions dialog.
type=cudatext-plugin
subdir=cuda_spell_checker
homepage=https://github.com/CudaText-addons/cuda_spell_checker
v=2025.12.18.1

I got stable Internet and used Add-ons Manager, which worked. The stanza in settings/packages.ini is now

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[plugin.Spell_Checker.zip]
d=py
f=cuda_spell_checker/
v=2025.12.18.1

[main Alexey]

sorry, but no wish to embed versions into all addons' install.inf files. double work (I already have it in the "cudatext-registry" Github repo). with small benefit.

[Random Void User]

The file name could encode its version. Linux repos use this method. I saved the spelling plug-in on my disk as

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spellchecker-2025.12.18.1.zip