BitchX in Mac OS X.2.2

C

cellfish

Depressed as hell
I've downloaded BitchX on the Mac and I have yet to run it successfully. Double-clicking on it won't do anything, running it from it folder by typing the program's name in terminal will tell you BitchX as a command doesn't exist, running it as ./BitchX will tell you that some libraries are missing.

Can anyone guide me through the installation of BitchX, from the installation to the execution?
 
I thought BitchX was an X-Windows application. If it has been ported to the aqua interface, cool, but if it hasn't then you'll need to be running a working install of XDarwin.
Why don't you post the link to wherever you got the app from? Once the crew have had a muck around with it they'll figure it out.
:-)
 
BitchX is a console app. You need to run it in a terminal window for it to work. The Mac OS X terminal app doesn't do a decent job with proper fonts for BitchX.. I recommend you install GLterm (using the sabvga font) or Xdarwin and use xterm or rxvt with a vga type font.

You probably need to install ncurses. You could try to install and use fink.
If this is out of your scope you should try a GUI client.
 
Actually it says something along the lines of lib.***ncurses. Only problem is, I have no idea where to get ncurses for Jag
 
What I recommend doing is the following:
Install fink and use it to compile and install other unix programs.
The Fink project wants to bring the full world of Unix Open Source software to Darwin and Mac OS X. We modify Unix software so that it compiles and runs on Mac OS X ("port" it) and make it available for download as a coherent distribution. Fink uses Debian tools like dpkg and apt-get to provide powerful binary package management. You can choose whether you want to download precompiled binary packages or build everything from source.
Click to expand...

http://fink.sourceforge.net/download/index.php

After you've installed fink open a terminal.app and type 'fink install bitchx'

This will install all the programs that bitchx needs and bitchx itself. All the fink files will be put in '/sw'
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top