Introduction
This chapter describes WeeChat and pre-requisites for its installation.
Description
WeeChat (Wee Enhanced Environment for Chat) is a free chat client,
fast and light, designed for many operating systems.
Main features are:
multi-servers connection (with SSL, IPv6, proxy)
many GUI: Curses (wxWidgets, Gtk and Qt under development)
small, fast and light
customizable and extensible with plugins and scripts
compliant with RFCs
1459,
2810,
2811,
2812 and
2813
multi-platform (GNU/Linux, *BSD, MacOS X, Windows and other)
100% GPL, free software
WeeChat homepage is here:
http://weechat.flashtux.org
Pre-requisites
In order to install WeeChat, you need:
a running GNU/Linux system (with compiler tools for source
package), or compatible OS (see above)
"root" privileges (to install WeeChat)
according to GUI, one of the following libraries:
Curses: ncurses library
Gtk: *** GUI not developed ***
WxWidgets: *** GUI not developed ***
Qt: *** GUI not developed ***