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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 1.1+
- socket
- uri
+ tokyocabinet for "tc" DB adaptor
+ http://1978th.net/tokyocabinet/
+ you can install Ruby bindings via "gem install tokyocabinet",
+ but this still requires libtokyocabinet to be installed system-wide
+ you can install those requirement in debian like this:
+ sudo aptitude install libtokyocabinet9 libtokyocabinet-dev zlib1g-dev libbz2-dev
+ sqlite3 for "sqlite" DB adaptor
+ install with gem install sqlite,
+ this also requires development libraries on the system to be present.
+ mechanize install it using gem install mechanize
+
+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)
-babelfish, wserver:
- net/http 1.2+
-
-
-excuse,insult:
- net/telnet
+twitter:
+ oauth, oauth2
-nslookup:
- resolv-replace (optional)
+shortenurls:
+ shorturl
-slashdot:
- REXML
+time:
+ tzinfo
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)
ispell(1)
+Running rbot on win32
+=====================
+
+OMYGOD no!
+
+ http://www.fefe.de/nowindows/
+
+
+Further instructions
+====================
+
+For further instructions, check https://github.com/4poc/rbot/wiki/Install-Guide
+For tips on handling the persistent plugin storage, backup, restore
+and migration, check: https://github.com/4poc/rbot/wiki/Registry-Migration-Notes
+