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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

weechat

$ sudo apt-get install weechat