I’ve been tinkering more and more lately with irssi (tutorial coming up) as an IRC client and I recently also installed Bitlbee to allow gateway connections to outside IM protocols.  Now, I can use my single IRC client to also connect to jabber, msn, etc and don’t need two clients.

Yes, I know there are clients out there that do this, like gaim.  I’ve been using gaim for quite a long time but I think I am leaning now toward irssi as my full-time client.  I’ll outline why in a future post, but this morning I wanted to outline installing and using Bitlbee gateway on an ubuntu machine.

In the interest of time I’m just going to link today to the writeup I did on the Ubuntu Community Docs.  Check it out here.  Comments and suggestions, as usual, are welcome here.

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5 Responses to “Installing and using Bitlbee - IRC gateway : Ubuntu (6.10)”

  1. Travis B. Hartwell on January 14th, 2007 12:20 pm

    I have written up something similar, including using bip, an IRC proxy that lets you connect to your same session from anywhere:

    http://www.travishartwell.net/blog/2006/04/20_1810

  2. Sexy Sexy Penguins»Blog Archive » The Mighty Bitlbee - Providing Instant Messaging to the IRC Crowd on January 14th, 2007 4:14 pm

    [...] I want to also mention that if you do not use Fedora or a Red Hat based system, there is another tutorial for Ubuntu here. [...]

  3. Tyrone Slothrop on July 12th, 2007 5:24 pm

    I just tried to set this up and everything appeared to work, yet I get connection refused when I try to connect.

    Any help?

  4. Tyrone Slothrop on July 12th, 2007 5:34 pm

    ok, it’s official. I’m a moron. I didn’t have a curly brace on its own line. Eveyrthing works now.

    *sign*

    Thanks for helping morons like me worldwide.

  5. Turistu on May 12th, 2008 3:39 pm

    Hello

    anyone can help me ?

    its is posible to send msg to group on bitlbee - yahoo messenger?

    Thank You

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