Ruby modules needed for rbot
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Core requirements
      bdb (berkley db)      http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/raa-list.rhtml?name=bdb
                            (which requires libdb2 or better, from
                            www.sleepycat.com)
      net/http 1.2+
      net/https             (for debian, this will also need libopenssl-ruby)
      socket
      uri

Useful but fallback provided
      ruby-gettext 1.8.0+   http://www.yotabanana.com/hiki/ruby-gettext.html?ruby-gettext
                            optional; if installed rbot can use localized messages
      htmlentities          http://htmlentities.rubyforge.org/
                            optional; if installed rbot will use it to decode
                            HTML entities; if missing, an internal table with
                            the most common HTML entities will be used instead
      hpricot               http://code.whytheluckystiff.net/hpricot/
                            optional, if installed rbot will used it to find
                            the first paragraph in HTML files; if missing,
                            regular expressions will be used instead


Plugin requirements
(these are all optional, if you don't have them, the plugins just won't
function)

bash, digg, slashdot, freshmeat, forecast:
      REXML
rss:
      rss
shortenurls:
      shorturl
time:
      tzinfo
translator:
      mechanize

External programs needed for rbot
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Plugin requirements
(These are all optional)

cal plugin:
      cal(1)

figlet plugin:
      figlet(6)

fortune plugin:
      fortune(6)

host plugin:
      host(1)

spell plugin:
      ispell(1)


Running rbot on win32
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here is bdb:
http://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/binaries/mingw/1.8/ext/bdb-0.5.1-i386-mingw32-1.8.tar.gz

and you need the Win32 MinGW version of Ruby:
http://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/binaries/mingw/1.8/ruby-1.8.4-i386-mingw32.tar.gz