#eggies - Installing your eggdrop

.:: Compiling your eggdrop

First, download eggdrop to your shell. Hopefully wget is installed on your shell.

tom@boo:~ $ wget geteggdrop.com

You can get the latest copy via CVS as well, if you like.

Next, untar it:

tom@boo:~ $ tar -zxvf eggdrop1.6.15.tar.gz eggdrop1.6.15/ eggdrop1.6.15/doc/ (...)eggdrop1.6.15/text/motd eggdrop1.6.15/Makefile tom@boo:~ $

So now it's unpacked, cd into the newly created directory and let's start compiling...

tom@boo:~ $ cd eggdrop1.6.15 tom@boo:~/eggdrop1.6.15 $ ./configure This is eggdrop's GNU configure script. It's going to run a bunch of strange tests to hopefully make your compile work without much twiddling. checking for gcc... gcc checking for C compiler default output... a.out checking whether the C compiler works... yes checking whether we are cross compiling... no (...)
Configure is done. Type 'make config' to configure the modules. Or 'make iconfig' to interactively choose which modules to compile. After that, type 'make clean' and then 'make' to create the bot.

Let's just do what it says...

tom@boo:~/eggdrop1.6.15 $ make config checking for removed modules...................... done. detecting modules...................... done. calculating dependencies.................... done. building ./src/mod/Makefile... done. (...)make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/tom/eggdrop1.6.15/src/mod' building ./src/mod/Makefile... done. You can now compile the bot, using "make".
Tada, make ... the final (and longest) step :-)

tom@boo:~/eggdrop1.6.15 $ make make[1]: Entering directory `/home/eggdrop/cvs/eggdrop1.6/src' (This may take a while. Go get some runts.) gcc -pipe -g -O2 -Wall -I.. -I.. -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -g3 -DDEBUG_ASSERT -DDEBUG_MEM \ (...)

-rwxr-xr-x    1 tom      users      138450 Apr 22 00:48 transfer.so
-rwxr-xr-x    1 tom      users       78631 Apr 22 00:49 uptime.so
-rwxr-xr-x    1 tom      users       90805 Apr 22 00:49 wire.so

Now run "make install" to install your bot.
Pretty obvious what we have to type here, no? :-)

tom@boo:~/eggdrop1.6.15 $ make install

If you want your eggdrop to be installed in a different directory than ~/eggdrop, use this instead:

tom@boo:~/eggdrop1.6.15 $ make DEST=/your/dir/here install

Eggdrop v1.6.15 (C) 1997 Robey Pointer (C) 2003 Eggheads
You can now proceed to configuring your bot.

.:: Starting your eggdrop

You should be able to start your bot for the first time by typing:

tom@boo:~/eggdrop $ ./eggdrop -m <configname.conf>

The -m is required only the first time, to create a new userfile. Next time you'll start your bot you'll already have a userfile, so you can start your eggdrop like this:

tom@boo:~/eggdrop $ ./eggdrop <configname.conf>

Make sure you're in the correct directory first (~/eggdrop, NOT ~/eggdrop1.6.15), or you'll get lots of error messages.

Enjoy the bot!