Install WeeChat 1.4 on Ubuntu / Linux Mint and Elementary OS

How to : Install WeeChat 1.4 on Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial Xerus, Ubuntu 15.10 Willy Werewolf, Ubuntu 15.04 vivid Vervet, ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr (LTS), Ubuntu 13.10/13.04/12.04, Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca, Linux Mint 17 Qiana, Linux Mint 13 Maya, Pinguy OS 14.04


WeeChat is designed to be light and extensible: a lightweight core with optional plugins.
Plugins and scripts can be dynamically loaded and unloaded at any time.

Almost everything is a plugin, for example:
  • Internet Relay Chat (IRC) protocol
  • API for script languages (python, perl, ruby, lua, tcl, guile, javascript)
  • IRC proxy and remote interface (relay)
  • Scripts manager
  • Alias, aspell, charset, logger, …
What News on Version 1.4 ?

Among the new features:

– add a parent name in options, display inherited values if null in /set output
– add option weechat.look.paste_auto_add_newline
– add /fifo command
– track real names using extended-join and WHO (IRC)
– add support of SNI (Server Name Indication) in SSL connection to IRC server
– add support of IRC “cap-notify” capability
– add IRC command /cap
– add hex dump of messages in raw buffer when debug is enabled for irc plugin
– add option relay.irc.backlog_since_last_message
– add option script.scripts.download_timeout
– add scripts to build Debian packages
– many bugs fixed.


How to :  Install WeeChat 1.4 on Ubuntu / Elementary OS / Linux Mint

Install WeeChat 1.4 on Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial Xerus, Ubuntu 15.10 Willy Werewolf, Ubuntu 15.04 vivid Vervet, ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr (LTS), Ubuntu 13.10/13.04/12.04, Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca, Linux Mint 17 Qiana, Linux Mint 13 Maya, Pinguy OS 14.04, and other Ubuntu derivative systems via PPA, open a new Terminal window and bash (get it?) in the following commands :
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:vincent-c/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install weechat
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