Ruby modules needed for rbot ============================ 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 ruby-uettext 1.8.0+ optional, if installed rbot can use localized messages 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 rubyurl: shorturl time: tzinfo External programs needed for rbot ================================= Plugin requirements (These are all optional) host plugin: host(1) spell plugin: ispell(1) Running rbot on win32 ===================== 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