IRC and proxy setup

deesto · 08-23-2007, 04:23 PM

Being somewhat new to Mac and OS X, I have a two-fold question:

What's a good (GUI), open-source client for OS X? I've tried several, but being that I haven't been able to get any of them working completely (see next question), I can't give them a fair shake. I've tried Ircle, and that seemed nice, but I was irked when the "trial" period expired, since I didn't remember seeing that it was shareware when I downloaded it (though I see it now). Colloquy and Conversation also seem nice, although, again, haven't been able to really try anything yet.

I know this one is more about opinion and preference, but I appreciate your advice (so long as you can also help with the next question as well! )
Is there a semi-painless way of getting a client to connect through an HTTP proxy to IRC servers? It looks like something like Irssi could work. However, I've been trying to compile it from source on my system for a few hours now. Each time I finally get a dependency downloaded, configured, and installed, and I try to configure it for build again, another one pops up. So far, I've installed pkg-config and gettext, and now glib won't compile (says it can't find gettext, even with a GETTEXT flag to configure), and who knows what else if I get past there. Is there an easier way?

I just want to be able to get to a few open-source software support channels on IRC, and the darn proxy is frustrating.

Thanks!

baf · 08-23-2007, 04:47 PM

If you install fink you have these to select from

Code:

 fink list |grep -i irc
        ircii   20030709-1      Popular text based irc client
        irssi   0.8.10a-1012    Modular IRC client
        irssi-ssl       0.8.10a-1012    Modular IRC client (with SSL)
        konversation    0.19-1025       KDE - User-friendly IRC client
        ksirc   3.5.4-1021      KDE - graphical IRC client
        net-irc-pm      0.70-1  Perl Module for writting IRC script in Perl
        riece   4.0.0-1 IRC client for Emacs
        xchat   2.6.8-1022      Graphical IRC client

I have not tried any so Good Luck

deesto · 08-24-2007, 10:15 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by baf


	If you install fink you have these to select from ...

Thanks. I even had trouble getting fink to work after installing it. I found these instructions:
http://finkproject.org/faq/usage-fink.php

But trying to download the cvs-proxy package according to that failed to download the binary package (it also failed to connect using the method given in the local installation files, which tell you to download the .info and .patch files to the finkinfo directory).

But after I manually downloaded the Debian binary to the /sw/fink/debs/ directory and re-ran fink configure to use that directory for packages, it seemed to work.

However, after all that, and running fink selfupdate-cvs, it still stalled:

Code:

Downloading the indexes of available packages in the binary distribution.
/sw/bin/apt-get-lockwait update
Err http://bindist.finkmirrors.net 10.4/release/main Packages                             
  Could not connect to bindist.finkmirrors.net:80 (213.84.134.230). - connect (60 Operation timed out)

Help!

deesto · 09-07-2007, 10:29 AM

OK, I've finally got Fink installed, and I used it to install Irssi, which I have configured according to their Irssi Proxy instructions:
http://irssi.org/documentation/proxy

But I'm still getting time-out messages when I try to connect to an IRC server. What else can I do?

08-23-2007, 04:23 PM	#1
deesto Prospect Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: NY, USA Posts: 41	IRC and proxy setup Being somewhat new to Mac and OS X, I have a two-fold question: What's a good (GUI), open-source client for OS X? I've tried several, but being that I haven't been able to get any of them working completely (see next question), I can't give them a fair shake. I've tried Ircle, and that seemed nice, but I was irked when the "trial" period expired, since I didn't remember seeing that it was shareware when I downloaded it (though I see it now). Colloquy and Conversation also seem nice, although, again, haven't been able to really try anything yet. I know this one is more about opinion and preference, but I appreciate your advice (so long as you can also help with the next question as well! ) Is there a semi-painless way of getting a client to connect through an HTTP proxy to IRC servers? It looks like something like Irssi could work. However, I've been trying to compile it from source on my system for a few hours now. Each time I finally get a dependency downloaded, configured, and installed, and I try to configure it for build again, another one pops up. So far, I've installed pkg-config and gettext, and now glib won't compile (says it can't find gettext, even with a GETTEXT flag to configure), and who knows what else if I get past there. Is there an easier way? I just want to be able to get to a few open-source software support channels on IRC, and the darn proxy is frustrating. Thanks!

09-07-2007, 10:29 AM	#4
deesto Prospect Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: NY, USA Posts: 41	OK, I've finally got Fink installed, and I used it to install Irssi, which I have configured according to their Irssi Proxy instructions: http://irssi.org/documentation/proxy But I'm still getting time-out messages when I try to connect to an IRC server. What else can I do?