Download

There are several ways you can get irssi:

• Sources for the latest release. They're pretty easy to compile, but read the included INSTALL file if you get into trouble.
• Binaries for the latest release.
• Nightly development snapshots. They might be broken once in a while, but usually should work just fine. You can get them as .tar.gz sources or binaries.
• SVN - You can also get the very latest version that exists. It works mostly like nightly snapshots, but is a bit more difficult to compile.

Sources

• Latest release version: 0.8.12
• Download .tar.gz (sig) .tar.bz2 (sig)

  To verify the signatures:

  • gpg --keyserver wwwkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys DDBEF0E1
  • You shouldn't really trust this key without verifying its fingerprint. See it with gpg --fingerprint staff@irssi.org and ask someone if it matches (eg. #irssi).
  • gpg --verify irssi-0.8.12.tar.gz.asc
  • This key is different from the one used to sign binaries of versions before 0.8.10.
  • More gpg help can be found from GPG manual

GLIB (at least version 2.0) is required to compile Irssi

• You can download it from ftp.gnome.org

Binaries

Binary packages for latest version (0.8.12)

• Debian:
  Sid: Irssi is available from sid. Just run apt-get install irssi.
  Sarge: edit your /etc/apt/sources.list file and add:

  deb http://www.davidpashley.com/debian/irssi/ ./

  Then run apt-get update; apt-get install irssi
• Latest Gentoo version can always be installed with emerge irssi
• Slackware users can get latest irssi from slackware-current
• SuSE Linux user can get the latest version from OpenSuse or a local mirror.
  The factory distribution ships with 0.8.12 aswell.
• Latest Frugalware version can always be installed with pacman -S irssi.
• Red Hat/Fedora
• Mac OS X: fink
• MacPorts users on Mac OS X may use "sudo port install irssi" to compile the irssi package.
• Windows users can download it here. (Special thanks to Joshua dick)

Nightly development snaphots

• ChangeLog
• Source tarballs
• Gentoo users can get it via emerge irssi-svn

Misc

• Czech translation patch
• IrssiX for Mac OS X / Cocoa
• MacIrssi is another interface for the Mac users. It's still under development, but you might want to take a look at it.