BitchX is a popular terminal IRC client. You can connect to IRC and join your favorite chat channels all through SSH on a remote server. This guide will show you how to install BitchX on Linux. We will be using Ubuntu but the installation is the same on any Linux distributions.

Install BitchX on Linux

These commands should be executed in your terminal/console/command prompt (however you wish to call it :p)

  1. cd ~

  2. mkdir bitchx

  3. cd bitchx

  4. wget http://www.bitchx.com/download/BitchX-1.1-final-linux.tar.gz

  5. tar -zxvf BitchX-1.1-final-linux.tar.gz

  6. ./BitchX

That’s it.

BitchX Errors

On the last step, if you get this error:

BitchX: error while loading shared libraries: libtcl8.1.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

It means you need to install tcllib. BitchX requires libtcl.so. On Ubuntu:

apt-get install tcllib