HexChat is an IRC client for Windows and UNIX-like operating systems.
See IRCHelp.org for information about IRC in general.
For more information on HexChat please read our documentation:
full dependancy list including for new features for debian derived systems:
sudo apt install build-essential meson ninja-build gettext libgtk-4-dev libssl-dev libdbus-glib-1-dev libcanberra-dev libnotify-dev liblua5.4-dev libpython3-dev libperl-dev libx11-dev python3-cffi libluajit-5.1-dev libpci-dev libperl-dev libssl-dev python3-dev desktop-file-utils libsqlite3-dev libjansson-dev libsoup-3.0-dev libwebsockets-dev libsecret-1-dev
X-Chat ("xchat") Copyright (c) 1998-2010 By Peter Zelezny. HexChat ("hexchat") Copyright (c) 2009-2014 By Berke Viktor. This program is released under the GPL v2 with the additional exemption that compiling, linking, and/or using OpenSSL is allowed. You may provide binary packages linked to the OpenSSL libraries, provided that all other requirements of the GPL are met. See file COPYING for details.