WeeChat IRC Chat Client for Linux Ubuntu. Install the latest WeeChat in Ubuntu 16.04 Systems. An IRC (Internet Relay Chat) client is a program that a user can install on their computer and it sends and receives messages to and from an IRC server. It simply connects you to a global network of IRC servers and enables one-on-one and group communication.
WeeChat is a light, fast, highly extensible command-line based and above all cross-platform chat client that runs on Unix, Linux, BSD, GNU Hurd, Windows and Mac OS.
WeeChat is:
- modular: a lightweight core with optional plugins
- multi-protocols architecture (mainly IRC)
- extensible with C, Python, Perl, Ruby, Lua, Tcl, Scheme and Javascript
- fully documented and translated into several languages
- a free program released under the GPLv3 license
- an active project with a large community for scripts.
Latest stable version of WeeChat is 1.5, released on May 1, 2016. WeeChat Version 1.5 features support of functions in API function “hook_process”, Portuguese translations and many bugs fixed.
New features
- core: add Portuguese translations
- core: change default value of option weechat.look.nick_color_hash to “djb2”
- core: move nick coloring from irc plugin to core, move options irc.look.nick_color_force, irc.look.nick_color_hash and irc.look.nick_color_stop_chars to core, add info “nick_color” and “nick_color_name”, deprecate info “irc_nick_color” and “irc_color_name” (issue #262)
- core: move irc bar item “away” to core, move options irc.look.item_away_message and irc.color.item_away to core (issue #692)
- api: add support of functions in hook_process
- api: add pointer in callbacks used in scripting API (issue #406)
- irc: add option irc.network.sasl_fail_unavailable (issue #600, issue #697)
- irc: add multiple targets and support of “-server” in command /ctcp (issue #204, issue #493)
- ruby: add detection of Ruby 2.3 (issue #698)
- trigger: add “recover” in default triggers cmd_pass/msg_auth, and “regain” in default trigger “msg_auth” (issue #511)
Download and Install WeeChat On Ubuntu
Download – Linux users can download the latest version of WeeChat from the official source:
- http://weechat.org/download/
Install – There are two methods to install WeeChat using commandline (Terminal).
Method 1
Run the following commands in Terminal to install WeeChat
$ sudo apt-get install apt-transport-https
$ sudo apt-key adv --keyserver pool.sks-keyservers.net --recv-keys 11E9DE8848F2B65222AA75B8D1820DB22A11534E
$ sudo bash -c "echo 'deb https://weechat.org/ubuntu xenial main' >/etc/apt/sources.list.d/weechat.list"
$ sudo bash -c "echo 'deb-src https://weechat.org/ubuntu xenial main' >>/etc/apt/sources.list.d/weechat.list"
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install weechat-curses weechat-plugins
Method 2
Run the following commands in Terminal to install WeeChat
$ sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:nesthib/weechat-stable
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install weechat
Once installed, open the WeeChat IRC client from Ubuntu Dash.