UnrealIRCd is a popular open-source Internet Relay Chat (IRC) server software. In this tutorial, we will guide you through the process of installing UnrealIRCd on Clear Linux Latest using the terminal.
Before installing UnrealIRCd, you should ensure that your Clear Linux system is up-to-date. You can do this by running the following command in your terminal:
sudo swupd update
Additionally, make sure that you have root or sudo user privileges.
UnrealIRCd has a few dependencies that must be installed before you can install the software. These dependencies can be installed using the following command:
sudo swupd bundle-add network-basic devpkg-openssl
This command installs the network-basic bundle, which contains the network protocols required by UnrealIRCd, and the devpkg-openssl bundle, which contains the OpenSSL toolkit.
To download UnrealIRCd to your Clear Linux system, run the following command:
curl -O https://www.unrealircd.org/unrealircd-latest.tar.gz
This command downloads the latest version of UnrealIRCd to your system.
To extract the downloaded file and compile UnrealIRCd, run the following commands:
tar zxvf unrealircd-latest.tar.gz
cd unrealircd*
The tar zxvf command extracts the contents of the unrealircd-latest.tar.gz file, and the cd command changes your working directory to the newly-extracted directory.
Next, you need to configure and compile UnrealIRCd. The following commands will accomplish this:
./configure
make
make install
The ./configure command sets up the software for compilation, make builds the software, and make install installs it on your system.
Now that you have UnrealIRCd installed on your Clear Linux system, you need to configure it. You can do this by editing the unrealircd.conf file located in the conf directory of the UnrealIRCd installation directory.
For example, to open the unrealircd.conf file using the nano text editor, you can run the following command:
sudo nano /usr/local/unrealircd/conf/unrealircd.conf
This will open the unrealircd.conf file, where you can make any necessary changes to the server configuration.
To start the UnrealIRCd server, run the following command:
sudo /usr/local/unrealircd/unrealircd
This command starts the UnrealIRCd server, and you can now connect to it from an IRC client.
In this tutorial, we showed you how to install UnrealIRCd on Clear Linux Latest using the terminal. We also covered the steps necessary to download, extract, compile, configure, and start UnrealIRCd. With this information, you are now equipped to set up your own IRC server using UnrealIRCd.
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