Eggdrop is a popular IRC bot that provides many useful features for managing IRC channels. Here is a step-by-step tutorial for installing Eggdrop on MXLinux.
Before installing Eggdrop, make sure your system is up-to-date. You can do this by opening a terminal and running the following command:
sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade
Eggdrop relies on several packages that are not installed by default on MXLinux. You can install these packages by running the following command in the terminal:
sudo apt install make gcc tcl8.6 tcl8.6-dev libssl-dev
You can download the latest version of Eggdrop from the official website at http://www.eggheads.org/. Once you have downloaded the source code, extract it to a directory of your choosing.
In the terminal, navigate to the directory where you extracted the Eggdrop source code. Then, run the following commands to compile and install Eggdrop:
./configure
make config
make
sudo make install
The configure command will detect your system configuration and generate a makefile. The make config command will launch a menu that allows you to customize your Eggdrop settings. The make command will compile the source code into an executable binary. The sudo make install command will copy the executable to /usr/local/bin/ and create a startup script in /etc/init.d/.
Once Eggdrop is installed, you can configure it by editing the eggdrop.conf file located in the same directory where you extracted the source code. This file contains all the settings for your Eggdrop bot, such as the IRC server and channel it will connect to, the nickname it will use, and various security options.
To start Eggdrop, simply run the following command in the terminal:
sudo /etc/init.d/eggdrop start
This will launch the Eggdrop process and connect it to the IRC server specified in the eggdrop.conf file. To stop Eggdrop, run the following command:
sudo /etc/init.d/eggdrop stop
Congratulations, you have successfully installed and configured Eggdrop on MXLinux!
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