Basic usage of IRC communication tool pidgin in Linux

This is a tutorial I sent to the open source group of Nanchang University

Irc

IRC is an ancient product that appeared before the graphical interface became popular. However, many open-source communities today use IRC for team communication or technical support for users, such as Wikipedia , so it is necessary to use it.
IRC is just an agreement to chat with the tools needed to support the protocol. There are many such tools in Linux. such as Pidgin and xchat, here I introduce Pidgin.

Pidgin

1. Search Pidgin in Ubuntu Software Center, or go to the official website to download it.

2. Open the Software

3. Click "Account"--"manage" on the menu bar.

The menu bar appears when you hover your mouse over the top of the window to display the buddy list.

4. Click Add in the Pop-up window

5. Select the communication protocol, we certainly choose IRC

6. Login with the account password, this is very good understanding. The server suggests freenode.net that this is better used.
The account may have been registered, and if there is an error that cannot be connected , repeat this step to find an account that has not been registered.

Note:[email protected] and [email protected] are two accounts, which means that the same account name is registered on different servers, which is actually a different account.

7. pop up this window

8. The name of your account will be used as your nickname at the beginning. But IRC differs from QQ, which does not allow nicknames to be duplicated.
If the hint nickname has already been registered, you can modify it as follows.

/nick <你的昵称>

Like what:

9. If the nickname is not duplicated, then type the command to register

/msg NickServ <你的密码> <你的邮箱>

Like what:

Go to your registered mailbox to see the mail .

One by one . Type the line of command in the message, in line 4th of the message.

A prompt appears indicating that the registration was successful.

back to the very beginning of the small window.

Input #ncuopen , this is our Nanchang University Open Source group channel. One #vim of the channels is a very famous and active channel on IRC.

Basic usage of IRC communication tool pidgin in Linux