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Irssi installation instructions
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First of all, you need GLib to compile irssi. If you don't have it
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already, you can either install it or let irssi download & compile it.
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The automatic downloading works only if you have wget or ncftpget
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installed, you can do it manually by unpacking glib sources to irssi's
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root dir.
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For most people, this should work just fine:
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./configure
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make
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su
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make install (not _really_ required except for perl support)
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You may want to give some parameters to configure, here's the most
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commonly used ones:
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--prefix - Specifies the path where irssi will be installed.
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YES, you can install irssi WITHOUT ROOT permissions
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by using --prefix=/home/dir
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--with-proxy - Build the irssi proxy (see startup-HOWTO).
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--enable-ipv6 - Enable IPv6 support. If you want irssi to prefer
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IPv6 for hosts that have both v4 and v6 addresses,
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use /SET resolve_prefer_ipv6 ON. You can also override
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this with /SERVER -4 or -6 options.
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If GLib or ncurses is installed installed in a non-standard path you can
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specify it with --with-glib=/path and --with-ncurses=/path.
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Irssi doesn't really need curses anymore, by default it uses
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terminfo/termcap directly. The functions for using terminfo/termcap
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however are usually only in curses library, some systems use libtermcap
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as well. If you want to use only curses calls for some reason, use
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--without-terminfo.
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Perl problems
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-------------
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Perl support generates most of the problems. There's quite a many
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things that can go wrong:
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- Perl 5.004 doesn't work by default, you'll need to edit
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src/perl/irssi-core.pl and remove all lines with "delete_package"
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in them.
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- Compiling fails if you compile irssi with GCC in a system that has
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perl compiled with some other C compiler. Very common problem with
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non-Linux/BSD systems. You'll need to edit src/perl/*/Makefile files
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and remove the parameters that gcc doesn't like. Mostly you'll just
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need to keep the -I and -D parameters and add -fPIC.
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- If there's any weird crashing at startup, you might have older irssi's
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perl libraries installed somewhere, and you should remove those.
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- Dynamic libraries don't want to work with some systems, so if your
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system complains about some missing symbol in Irssi.so file, configure
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irssi with --with-perl-staticlib option (NOT same as --with-perl=static).
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- If configure complains that it doesn't find some perl stuff, you're
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probably missing libperl.so or libperl.a. In debian, you'll need to do
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apt-get install libperl-dev
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You can verify that the perl module is loaded and working with "/LOAD"
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command. It should print something like:
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Module Type Submodules
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...
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perl static core fe
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