setting an irc client 🔼
Pre: Internet connection
Hexchat installed
Having an internet connection we can easily connect to an irc network. The difficult is to connect by using an existing identity or create a new one.
Basic concepts 🔼
irc 🔼
irc networks 🔼
Clients in Devuan repos 🔼
hexchat 🔼
weechat 🔼
Konversation 🔼
KVirc 🔼
Libera 🔼
Libera website : @
libera / identity 🔼
libera / identity / about 🔼
Usually an irc client askus for a nick (and 2nd ,3rd alternatives) before we connect to an irc network. And if the nick is used already the network will give us one of our alternatives and if those are used also then it will give us a temporary usually prefix with the 'guest' word and a unique number suffix.
To avoid that annoyance a used wanting a more permanent solution would have to register his favorite (available) nick to the NickServ of the network .
libera / identity / Choosing a nick 🔼
In the simplest case regarding our identity in a certain irc net we can connect to an IRC network and using the NICK command choose a nick but that nick will be lost when we disconnect and anyone else can use that nick while we are disconnected.
If we want to have one nick that only we can use it then we must take actions to register it to NickServ.
libera / identity / Certfp 🔼
Libera site guide: @
We need a cert file : I named mine libera.pem
hexchat 🔼
$ sudo apt-get install hexchat
Starting Hexchat will present as with a nick fields and a list of irc networks