Routing

Step 1: Preparing your system

• We will be building the IRCd from source, so of course you will need a few tools, like: git, gcc, etc.
  • On Ubuntu, Debian and the like, you can install these with apt install git wget build-essential python3 libssl-dev
• It is usually a good idea to run UnrealIRCd on it's own user. You can create a ircd user with adduser --disabled-password --shell /bin/bash --gecos "User" ircd
• Switch to the new ircd user with sudo ircd

Step 2: Downloading and building the IRCd

We will download Unrealircd

• Get the IRCD source code with wget --trust-server-names https://www.unrealircd.org/downloads/unrealircd-latest.tar.gz
• Configure it for compilation with ./Config
• The script will ask you a few questions. It is recommended to pick the defaults for everything, so you can just hit enter on every question.
• After you finish configuring, you can now compile and install Unrealircdd with make && make install