Eggdrop

Eggdrop is the world's most popular Open Source IRC bot, designed for flexibility and ease of use, and is freely distributable under the GNU GeneralPublicLicense (GPL). Eggdrop was originally developed by Robey Pointer; however, he no longer works on Eggdrop so please do not contact him for help solving a problem or bug.

Some features of Eggdrop:

Designed to run on Linux, *BSD, SunOs, Windows, Mac OS X, etc ...

Extendable with Tcl scripts and/or C modules

Support for the big five IRC networks (Undernet, DALnet, EFnet, IRCnet, and QuakeNet)

The ability to form botnets and share partylines and userfiles between bots

Some benefits of Eggdrop:

The oldest IRC bot still in active development (Eggdrop was created in 1993)

Established IRC help channels and web sites dedicated to Eggdrop

Thousands of premade Tcl scripts and C modules

Best of all ... It's FREE!

http://www.eggheads.org/

http://www.egghelp.org/

ftp://ftp.eggheads.org/pub/eggdrop/

join #bots #egghelp on EfNet

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The Short Short Version

1) Download eggdrop1.6.13.tar.gz from the eggheads ftp.

2) Telnet and FTP to the shell.

3) Upload eggdrop1.6.13.tar.gz via FTP.

4) In telnet type tar zxvf eggdrop1.6.13.tar.gz

5) Type cd eggdrop1.6.13

6) Type ./configure

7) Type make config (compiles all modules) or make iconfig (allows you to select the modules to compile).

8) Type make

9) Type make install DEST=/home/name/botdir

10) Switch to the botdir and edit the sample config file eggdrop.conf, then rename it to something appropriate (e.g. botnick.conf).

11) Type ./eggdrop -m

Note: Eggdrop requires Tcl to compile. If the server does not have Tcl installed, you will need to download and install it.

6 May 2003 - Eggdrop 1.6.15 released, Dopa bash script

Eggdrop 1.6.15 has been relased!

ftp://eggheads.mysmartcity.nl/eggdrop/source/1.6/eggdrop1.6.15.tar.gz

Eggdrops can be heavily extended using tcl scripts

Eggdrop Tricks:

http://olympus.het.brown.edu/doc/eggdrop/tricks