Is there any record of installed plugins in the database?

I have my live install on one server and a development install on another. I’ve added a plugin to both but it only appears in the plugin list in wp-admin on one.

For a plugin to appear in wp-admin does it need to appear in the database at all? Or is it that just by having the plugin file(s) in the plugins directory that it’ll be detected?

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  1. The plugin file had Mac line endings so the meta-data comment at the top of the file wasn’t being parsed properly. e.g.

    <?php
    /*
      Plugin Name: WP JSON-RPC
      Plugin URI: http://plugins.voceconnect.com
      Description: This plugin provides a JSON version of the XML-RPC WordPress API...
      Author: Jeff Stieler
      Version: 0.9.1
    */