DMDirc

In other languages: English | Afrikaans | Albanian | Arabic | Brazilian | Bulgarian | Catalan | Chinese | Croatian | Czech | Danish | Dutch | Esperanto | Estonian | Filipino | Finnish | Flemish | French | German | Greek | Hebrew | Hindi | Hungarian | Indonesian | Italian | Japanese | Latvian | Lithuanian | Macedonian | Malay | Malayalam | Norwegian (Bokmål) | Norwegian (Nynorsk) | Persian | Polish | Portuguese | Romanian | Russian | Serbian | Slovak | Slovenian | Spanish | Swedish | Turkish | Ukrainian | Urdu

DMDirc is an Open Source, cross-platform Internet Relay Chat (IRC) client developed in Java programming language. It can be easily installed and used on multiple Operating Systems, to name a few: Windows, Linux, OS X, BSD and Solaris.

DMDirc, the "Intelligent IRC Client" offers easily extendible Plug-ins, such as: Relay Bot support, Spellchecker, KDE4 Notifications, Nowplaying (which supports iTunes, Kaffeine, Last.fm, Dragon Player, Winamp etc) and many other plugins.

In addition to IRC, DMDirc can connect to Twitter (or any other site using the Twitter API, such as identi.ca).

It has support for both mIRC and hex colours, as well as bold, italics and more.

To Install DMDirc on Linux? Firstly, make sure you have Java installed. If Java is not installed, you probably need to download a copy of it (Sun Microsystems Java Runtime Environment (JRE)). How to install Java on Linux? Check this neat tutorial

How to install DMDirc on Linux OS

Download the "Linux installer" (DMDirc-0.6.3-Setup.run, 1.5M).

Execute the following command in Terminal:

chmod +x DMDirc-0.6.3-Setup.run

To run DMDirc, simply execute:

./DMDirc-0.6.3-Setup.run

How to install DMDirc on Windows OS

Again, make sure Java is installed on your Computer. Download the "Windows installer" (DMDirc-0.6.3-Setup.exe, 2.1M).

Once downloaded, follow the installation-instructions there. Nothing confusing nor complicated.

Download(s)

Download: http://www.dmdirc.com/en/downloads

Git (Revision Control System) repositorie(s): http://git.dmdirc.com

Subversion (SVN): http://svn.dmdirc.com

Documentation

Having problem's? Flip through the Documentaion section: http://www.dmdirc.com/en/docs