Atheme is a set of services for IRC networks designed for large IRC networks with high scalability requirements. It is relatively mature software, with some code and design derived from another package called Shrike.
Atheme's behavior is tunable using modules and a highly detailed configuration file. Almost all behavior can be changed at deployment time just by editing the configuration.
If you have a modern version of Git (1.6.5 or newer), you can recursively clone the repository:
$ git clone --branch 'release/7.2' --recursive 'https://github.com/atheme/atheme/' atheme-devel
$ cd atheme-devel
If you have an older version of Git, you must clone the repository, and then fetch its submodules:
$ git clone 'https://github.com/atheme/atheme/' atheme-devel
$ cd atheme-devel
$ git checkout release/7.2
$ git submodule init
$ git submodule update
If you don't have Git, you can download a package archive from our website at https://atheme.github.io/.
If you are browsing our GitHub repository, please do NOT click the "Download
ZIP" button or the "Source code" links there, as they will give you an archive
that lacks the required submodules. There are proper .tar.bz2 or .tar.xz
archives attached to each release under "Assets", which is what the "Download"
button on our website will take you to.
Obtain the source code repository and change into its directory (using the commands given above).
If you are building Atheme on a GNU/Linux system, or something which can sufficiently emulate that (like WSL 2 on Windows 10), execute the following commands:
$ ./configure
$ make
$ make install
If you are building Atheme on an OpenBSD (or similar) system, execute the following commands instead:
# pkg_add gmake
$ ./configure
$ gmake
$ gmake install
If you're still lost, read the INSTALL file or check out our wiki for more hints.
- Our Website
- Our GitHub Repository
- The Atheme Wiki
- The #atheme channel on freenode