====== Irssi IRC chat client ======

[[https://irssi.org|Irssi]] is a chat client supports IRC by default, but there are additional modules that allow XMPP and other protocols. To learn more, refer to the [[https://irssi.org/documentation/|official 
documentation]].

Refer to the parent page about [[programming:irc|IRC]].

===== Installing =====

In Debian and many other Linux distributions, you can install using the system package manager.

<code bash>
apt install irssi irssi-plugin-xmpp
</code>

If you want to build from source:

<code bash>
# Download sources: https://irssi.org/download/
wget https://github.com/irssi/irssi/releases/download/1.2.2/irssi-1.2.2.tar.xz
tar xJf irssi-1.2.2.tar.xz
cd irssi-1.2.2.tar.xz
./configure --help | less

apt install glib2.0 libgcrypt-dev libotr5-dev libperl-dev
./configure --enable-true-color --with-socks --with-bot --with-proxy --with-otr=yes
make
./irssi --version
make install
</code>

The XMPP module is available at: https://github.com/cdidier/irssi-xmpp