A Blog Post on Setting up an IRC client and ZNC :D
reddit / irc

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TingPing · 2019-03-08 03:03

HexChat dev here; Your Ubuntu command is wrong but anyway I generally
suggest all Linux users get hexchat via
[Flatpak](https://flatpak.org): `flatpak install
https://flathub.org/repo/appstream/io.github.Hexchat.flatpakref`. It
is also not available for macOS.

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Sudipto_Ghosh · 2019-03-08 03:15

The Debian/Ubuntu command was absolutely a typo. Sorry for that. Will
then include the link for flatpak and snap packages too :D

Can't OS X users build it via Homebrew? ([https://hexchat.readthedocs.
io/en/latest/building.html](https://hexchat.readthedocs.io/en/latest/b
uilding.html)) Anyways, I will update my post, thank you for pointing
things out!

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TingPing · 2019-03-08 03:22

> Will then include the link for flatpak and snap packages too :D

Don't actually mention snap; It is just a worse package. Its just too
much work to remove it from the site.

> Can't OS X users build it via Homebrew?
(https://hexchat.readthedocs.io/en/latest/building.html) Anyways, I
will update my post, thank you for pointing things out!

It requires a lot of knowledge to build it manually, its not tested or
supported and the end result if you accomplish it is a pretty poor
experience anyway.

It isn't the same but Textual is my go to recommendation for mac
users. It is also FOSS and has good support.

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Sudipto_Ghosh · 2019-03-08 03:39

Updated!

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eskimo1106 · 2019-03-09 14:09

It's chat.freenode.net not irc.freenode.net

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Sudipto_Ghosh · 2019-03-10 01:57

chat.freenode.net gave me DNS resolution errors a few times, hence, I
checked http://irc.netsplit.de/servers/?net=freenode and
irc.freenode.net worked for me 😊

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Sudipto_Ghosh · 2019-03-10 02:09

"Their servers are all accessible from the host names
chat.freenode.net and irc.freenode.net, which load balances
connections by using the actual servers in rotation."
Source: Wikipedia, the free encyclopaedia
(https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freenode)