Config value 'plugins': The "social" plugin is not installed

[pavelklymenko]

Tried to install insiders following the guidelines at Getting started with Insiders -> Installation

Environment

Mac OS 13.4.1 (22F82)/ Apple M1 Max
Python 3.11.4

Here's the procedure I followed:

python3 -m venv .insiders
source .insiders/bin/activate
pip install git+https://${GH_TOKEN}@github.com/squidfunk/mkdocs-material-insiders.git

Configuration
mkdocs.yml

site_name: Blog

mkdocs.insiders.yml

INHERIT: mkdocs.yml
plugins:
  - search
  - social
  - tags

After running the command mkdocs build --config-file mkdocs.insiders.yml get the following error (for Social and Tags)

blog ❯ mkdocs build --config-file mkdocs.insiders.yml                                               Py .insiders 16:01:32
ERROR    -  Config value 'plugins': The "social" plugin is not installed
Aborted with 1 Configuration Errors!

Already tried to what was described in #3713 and #3177

[kamilkrzyskow]

Your base MkDocs.yml file seems to be missing the

theme:
    name: material

configuration part.
The social plugin is a part of the material theme and by default when no theme name is given the MkDocs theme is used by default which doesn't have any social plugin.

https://squidfunk.github.io/mkdocs-material/creating-your-site/#minimal-configuration

[pavelklymenko]

I tried to add that as well, still had the same error message. Thanks for suggestion, tho.

[pavelklymenko]

What I tried to do is move all the plugin configurations to the mkdocs.yml and run mkdocs build --config-file mkdocs.yml. This time it reported an error:
ERROR - Required dependencies of "social" plugin not found. Install with: pip install pillow cairosvg

Fixed that with pip install pillow cairosvg

[pavelklymenko]

And I guess this is what I didn't get without @kamilkrzyskow suggestion. Thanks!

[kamilkrzyskow]

This is a completely different error, which shouldn't even appear when running mkdocs build --config-file mkdocs.yml, because it doesn't have any plugins section to begin with, therefore the social plugin shouldn't report any issues.

My suggestion was the answer for the error in the OP post. You went ahead a few steps and solved your nth error and marked it as the answer to the OP, when actually it is a different issue 🙄.

Nonetheless I'm glad you figured it out.