Terminal commands to install WeeChat PPA on Ubuntu. Install WeeChat chat client on Ubuntu 15.04, Ubuntu 14.04 and Ubuntu 14.10.
WeeChat is a fast, light and extensible chat client. It runs on many platforms like Linux, Unix, BSD, GNU Hurd, Mac OS X and Windows (cygwin).
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 1.2, released on May 10, 2015.
Install WeeChat Client
Open Terminal and run the following commands to istall WeeChat via official PPA:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nesthib/weechat-stable
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install weechat
(or “sudo apt-get upgrade” if an older version of weechat is already installed)
You can also install WeeChat via Ubuntu Software Center. Open Ubuntu Software Center and search for and install WeeChat.