Download

There are several ways you can get irssi:

  • Sources for the latest release. They're pretty easy to compile, but read the included INSTALL file if you get into trouble.
  • Binaries for the latest release.
  • Nightly development snapshots. They might be broken once in a while, but usually should work just fine. You can get them as .tar.gz sources or binaries.
  • SVN - You can also get the very latest version that exists. It works mostly like nightly snapshots, but is a bit more difficult to compile.

Sources

  • Latest release version: 0.8.12
  • Download .tar.gz (sig) .tar.bz2 (sig)

    To verify the signatures:

    • gpg --keyserver wwwkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys DDBEF0E1
    • You shouldn't really trust this key without verifying its fingerprint. See it with gpg --fingerprint staff@irssi.org and ask someone if it matches (eg. #irssi).
    • gpg --verify irssi-0.8.12.tar.gz.asc
    • This key is different from the one used to sign binaries of versions before 0.8.10.
    • More gpg help can be found from GPG manual

GLIB (at least version v1.2) is required to compile Irssi

  • You can download it from ftp.gtk.org
  • If you do not want to (or can not) install GLIB, you can let irssi's configure automatically download and compile it for you. configure tries to download it using wget or ncftpget. If you don't have either, you have to unpack the GLIB tarball to the root directory of irssi.

Binaries

Binary packages for latest version (0.8.12)

  • Debian: Sid: Irssi is available from sid. Just run apt-get install irssi. Sarge: edit your /etc/apt/sources.list file and add: 
    deb http://www.davidpashley.com/debian/irssi-sarge/ ./
    Then run apt-get update; apt-get install irssi
  • Latest Gentoo version can always be installed with emerge irssi
  • Windows users can download it here. (Special thanks to Joshua dick)
  • Slackware users can get latest irssi from slackware-current
  • SuSE Linux user can get the latest version from OpenSuse or a local mirror.
    The factory distribution ships with 0.8.12 aswell.
  • Red Hat/Fedora Core
  • DarwinPorts and MacPorts users on Mac OS X may use "sudo port install irssi" to compile the irssi package.
  • Latest version can always be installed for Frugalware with pacman -S irssi. Extra information for the Irssi package can be found on frugalware.org

Binary packages for older versions:

Nightly development snaphots

Misc

 
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