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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)
+ bdb (berkley db) http://raa.ruby-lang.org/project/bdb/
+ (which requires libdb4.x or better, formerly from
+ www.sleepycat.com, now at
+ http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/berkeley-db/index.html)
+ Most of the time you don't need to compile anything.
+ If you're running Linux, your distribution should
+ have a libdb-ruby packaged (or similar).
+ For Windows instructions, check at the bottom
+ of this file.
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
+ 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
REXML
rss:
rss
-rubyurl:
+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)
Running rbot on win32
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-here is bdb:
+You can install Ruby using the One-Click Ruby installer, available from
+http://rubyinstaller.rubyforge.org/
+
+You can find a precompiled version of the bdb package for ruby here
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
+When you unpack the archive (e.g. using WinZip or 7-Zip or any other tool
+of your choice) you'll notice that it contains the following directory structure:
+ usr
+ +---local
+ +---doc
+ +---lib
+and you have to move the doc and lib folders (and all their contents) in the folder
+where you installed Ruby (typically C:\Ruby\)
+
+
+Further instructions
+====================
+For further instructions, check http://linuxbrit.co.uk/rbot/wiki/InstallGuide