REQUIREMENTS

   1 Ruby modules needed for rbot
   2 ============================
   3
   4 Core requirements
   5       bdb (berkley db)      http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/raa-list.rhtml?name=bdb
   6                             (which requires libdb2 or better, from
   7                             www.sleepycat.com)
   8       net/http 1.2+
   9       net/https             (for debian, this will also need libopenssl-ruby)
  10       socket
  11       uri
  12
  13 Useful but fallback provided
  14       ruby-gettext 1.8.0+   http://www.yotabanana.com/hiki/ruby-gettext.html?ruby-gettext
  15                             optional; if installed rbot can use localized messages
  16       htmlentities          http://htmlentities.rubyforge.org/
  17                             optional; if installed rbot will use it to decode
  18                             HTML entities; if missing, an internal table with
  19                             the most common HTML entities will be used instead
  20       hpricot               http://code.whytheluckystiff.net/hpricot/
  21                             optional, if installed rbot will used it to find
  22                             the first paragraph in HTML files; if missing,
  23                             regular expressions will be used instead
  24
  25
  26 Plugin requirements
  27 (these are all optional, if you don't have them, the plugins just won't
  28 function)
  29
  30 bash, digg, slashdot, freshmeat, forecast:
  31       REXML
  32 rss:
  33       rss
  34 shortenurls:
  35       shorturl
  36 time:
  37       tzinfo
  38 translator:
  39       mechanize
  40
  41 External programs needed for rbot
  42 =================================
  43
  44 Plugin requirements
  45 (These are all optional)
  46
  47 cal plugin:
  48       cal(1)
  49
  50 figlet plugin:
  51       figlet(6)
  52
  53 fortune plugin:
  54       fortune(6)
  55
  56 host plugin:
  57       host(1)
  58
  59 spell plugin:
  60       ispell(1)
  61
  62
  63 Running rbot on win32
  64 =====================
  65
  66 here is bdb:
  67 http://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/binaries/mingw/1.8/ext/bdb-0.5.1-i386-mingw32-1.8.tar.gz
  68
  69 and you need the Win32 MinGW version of Ruby:
  70 http://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/binaries/mingw/1.8/ruby-1.8.4-i386-mingw32.tar.gz
  71