{"id":1597,"date":"2013-09-10T04:02:05","date_gmt":"2013-09-10T04:02:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=1597"},"modified":"2013-09-10T04:02:05","modified_gmt":"2013-09-10T04:02:05","slug":"install-hexchat-ppa-in-ubuntu-13-10-saucy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2013\/09\/install-hexchat-ppa-in-ubuntu-13-10-saucy\/","title":{"rendered":"Install HexChat via PPA in Ubuntu 13.10 Saucy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/hexchat-logo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/hexchat-logo.jpg\" alt=\"hexchat logo\" width=\"180\" height=\"180\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1598\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/hexchat-logo.jpg 180w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/hexchat-logo-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 180px) 100vw, 180px\" \/><\/a>HexChat is an IRC client based on XChat, but unlike XChat it\u2019s completely free for both Windows and Unix-like systems. HexChat was originally called XChat-WDK which in turn was a successor of freakschat. <\/p>\n<p>Features:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Easy to use and customizable interface<\/li>\n<li>Cross-platform on Windows and Unix-like OSes<\/li>\n<li>Highly scriptable with Python and Perl<\/li>\n<li>Translated in multiple languages<\/li>\n<li>Fully open source and actively developed<\/li>\n<li>Multi-network with auto-connect, join, and identify<\/li>\n<li>Spellcheck, Proxies, SASL, DCC support and more<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Here&#8217;s how to install HexChat via PPA in Ubuntu 13.10, Ubuntu 13.04, Ubuntu 12.04 and their derivatives such as Linux Mint and Elementary OS.<\/p>\n<p>Press <b>Ctrl+Alt+T<\/b> on your keyboard to open temrinal. When it opens, run below commands to add the ppa:<\/p>\n<pre>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gwendal-lebihan-dev\/hexchat-stable<\/pre>\n<p>Then update system package lists and install the IRC Client:<\/p>\n<pre>sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get install hexchat<\/pre>\n<p>Once installed, open hexchat from unity dash home.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/hexchat.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/hexchat.jpg\" alt=\"HexChat Ubuntu\" width=\"468\" height=\"299\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1599\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/hexchat.jpg 468w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/hexchat-300x191.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 468px) 100vw, 468px\" \/><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HexChat is an IRC client based on XChat, but unlike XChat it\u2019s completely free for both Windows and Unix-like systems. HexChat was originally called XChat-WDK which in turn was a successor of freakschat. Features: Easy to use and customizable interface Cross-platform on Windows and Unix-like OSes Highly scriptable with Python and Perl Translated in multiple [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[577,37,578],"class_list":["post-1597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howtos","tag-irc-client","tag-ubuntu-13-10","tag-xchat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1597\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}