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BitlBee Installation Guide

Follow this detailed guide to install BitlBee on your system seamlessly. Learn how to download, configure, compile, and launch BitlBee with ease.

Install Required Packages

apt install libcrypt-dev libcrypt-twofish-perl libotr5-dev libpurple-dev locales

Download and Extract

wget http://get.bitlbee.org/src/bitlbee-3.6.tar.gz
tar -xvzf bitlbee-3.6.tar.gz
./configure

Configure and And Set Options

./configure \
--jabber=1 \
--twitter=1 \
--purple=1 \
--plugins=1 \
--otr=1 \
--config=/etc/bitlbee/ \
--pidfile=/var/run/bitlbee&/bitlbee.pid \
--prefix=/usr/share/

Compile / Install

make $((nproc) + 1 )
make install
make install-etc
make intsall-dev
make install-systemd

Create /etc/bitlbee and Launch BitlBee

mkdir /etc/bitlbee
bitlbee -D