Ruby modules needed for rbot ============================ Core requirements tokyocabinet for "tc" DB adaptor http://1978th.net/tokyocabinet/ you can install Ruby bindings via "gem install tokyocabinet", but this still requires libtokyocabinet to be installed system-wide you can install those requirement in debian like this: sudo aptitude install libtokyocabinet9 libtokyocabinet-dev zlib1g-dev libbz2-dev sqlite3 for "sqlite" DB adaptor install with gem install sqlite, this also requires development libraries on the system to be present. mechanize install it using gem install mechanize Useful but fallback provided ruby-gettext 1.8.0+ http://www.yotabanana.com/hiki/ruby-gettext.html?ruby-gettext optional; if installed rbot can use localized messages htmlentities http://htmlentities.rubyforge.org/ optional; if installed rbot will use it to decode HTML entities; if missing, an internal table with the most common HTML entities will be used instead hpricot http://code.whytheluckystiff.net/hpricot/ optional, if installed rbot will used it to find the first paragraph in HTML files; if missing, regular expressions will be used instead Plugin requirements (these are all optional, if you don't have them, the plugins just won't function) twitter: oauth, oauth2 shortenurls: shorturl time: tzinfo External programs needed for rbot ================================= Plugin requirements (These are all optional) cal plugin: cal(1) figlet plugin: figlet(6) fortune plugin: fortune(6) host plugin: host(1) spell plugin: ispell(1) Running rbot on win32 ===================== OMYGOD no! http://www.fefe.de/nowindows/ Further instructions ==================== For further instructions, check https://github.com/4poc/rbot/wiki/Install-Guide For tips on handling the persistent plugin storage, backup, restore and migration, check: https://github.com/4poc/rbot/wiki/Registry-Migration-Notes