Installing

Installing
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Windows. Download the Windows version of savIRC then double-click on the executable. You will then be led through the installation. The savIRC installer does NOT create any registry entries or hide files or links elsewhere on your machine, unless you choose to create shortcuts for the Desktop or Start Menu. This means that you really do not need to use the uninstaller if you want to remove it. You can simply delete the savIRC directory.

Unix-like OS's. You must have a version of Tcl/Tk installed on your machine. For best results use Tcl/Tk 8.4.11 or above. Although you can use Tcl/Tk 8.3, it is not recommended due to performance issues. Here are a few places that you can get Tcl/Tk from:

I recommend getting Tcl/Tk from ActiveState. The distribution comes with Tcl/Tk and several extensions. The installation is pain-free aswell. Before we start lets verify that Tcl/Tk is installed on your system. You can do this by executing these commands in a terminal window.

whereis tclsh
whereis wish

Those two commands should return a path to where the executables are. if you get an error, or receive no feedback, you will most likely need to install Tcl/Tk. Before installing savIRC make sure that Tcl/Tk is in your path. After downloading the savIRC tarball you will want to unpack it by following the steps below.

Note

The x in the file name is simply a placeholder.

tar xzvf savIRC-x.xx.tar.gz
cd savIRC-x.xx
make install

Note

You must be ROOT to install savIRC in the default location, which is

/usr/local/lib/

/usr/local/bin/

If you choose to install savIRC inside your home directory you do not need ROOT access.

Note

For FreeBSD users: If there are more than one wish/tclsh installed on your system, you must choose which version you want savIRC to use. You may do that during installation by specifying it as an argument to make such as: make install WISH=wish8.4

Makefile Help . Type make --help to see your options. It is similar to these instructions.

Install Options .

By default savIRC will install to

/usr/local/lib/

/usr/local/bin/

If you wish to change that use the PREFIX option.

Example: make install PREFIX=my/new/install/location

If you have two or more versions of Tcl/Tk installed and you want to specify which version to use for savIRC, you may use the WISH option to do so.

Example: make install WISH=wish8.4

Launching savIRC. After the installation is complete you can execute savIRC by typing savirc on the command line.