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There are several ways you can get Irssi:

# "Ready-Made Packages":#packages
# "Compiling from Sources":#sources

* "Miscellaneous Links":#misc

h2(#packages). Distributions' Packages

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div{margin-bottom:1ex}. !{padding-right:1ex}/assets/Windows.png!*Windows*

p. Dowload setup.exe from "(rel-external)Cygwin":https://www.cygwin.com/ and select irssi during the package selection step. To start irssi, open MinTTY (link should be on your Desktop) and type @irssi@

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div{margin-bottom:1ex}. !/assets/debian.png!!{padding-right:1ex}/assets/ubuntu.png!*Debian/Ubuntu*

@apt-get install irssi@.
You may find more up to date version on "(rel-external)Debian Backports":http://backports.debian.org/

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div{margin-bottom:1ex}. !{padding-right:1ex}/assets/gentoo.png!*Gentoo*

@emerge irssi@

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div{margin-bottom:1ex}. !{padding-right:1ex}/assets/slackware.png!*Slackware*

@slackpkg install irssi@

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div{margin-bottom:1ex}. !{padding-right:1ex}/assets/openSUSE.png!*SuSE*

@zypper in irssi@.
You may find more up to date versions on "(rel-external)openSUSE Package Search":http://software.opensuse.org/package/irssi

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div{margin-bottom:1ex}. !{padding-right:1ex}/assets/arch.png!*ArchLinux*

@pacman -S irssi@

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div{margin-bottom:1ex}. !{padding-right:1ex}/assets/fedora.png!*Fedora/Red Hat*

@dnf install irssi@ or
@yum install irssi@

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div{margin-bottom:1ex}. !{padding-right:1ex}/assets/opencsw.png!*Solaris*

@pkg-get install irssi@

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div{margin-bottom:1ex}. !{padding-right:1ex}/assets/macosx.png!*Apple MacOS*

Install "(rel-external)Homebrew":http://brew.sh/, then
@brew install irssi@.
You can also install Git with:
@brew install --HEAD irssi@

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h2(#sources). Sources

h3. Sources for the latest release

Latest release version: *0.8.17* - "(rel-external)Downloads"://github.com/irssi-import/irssi/releases

They sources are pretty easy to compile once you have all the prerequisites:

bc. ./configure && make && sudo make install
  
but read the included @INSTALL@ file if you get into trouble.

To verify the signatures:

bc. gpg --keyserver wwwkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys DDBEF0E1
    
You shouldn't really trust this key without verifying its fingerprint. See it with [@gpg --fingerprint staff@irssi.org@] and ask someone if it matches (eg. on @#irssi@).

bc. gpg --verify irssi-0.8.17.tar.gz.asc

(This key is different from the one used to sign binaries of versions before 0.8.10. More gpg help can be found from GPG manual)


"(rel-external)GLIB":https://developer.gnome.org/glib/ (at least version 2.0) is required to compile Irssi

h3. Development sources

"Git":1 - You can also get the development version. To check it out, run

bc. git clone https://github.com/irssi/irssi
  
After check-out, you *must* run @./autogen.sh@. It may be necessary to install additional packages. More information can be found on "(rel-external)the wiki.":https://github.com/shabble/irssi-docs/wiki/Irssi-0.8.17#compiling-from-git

*Note*, the @INSTALL@ document is **not** valid for Git clones, only for release tarballs (even though it is also included in the Git checkout)


h2(#misc). Misc

* "(rel-external)Commit Log"://github.com/irssi/irssi/commits/master
* "(rel-external)Release ChangeLog"://github.com/irssi-import/irssi/releases
* "(rel-external)Czech translation patch":http://nomi.cz/download/releases/irssi-cz/
* "(rel-external)IrssiX":http://adlr.info/?Irssix for Mac OS X / Cocoa
* "(rel-external)MacIrssi"://github.com/MacIrssi/MacIrssi is another interface for the Mac users you may want to take a look at.


[1]https://github.com/irssi/irssi