REQUIREMENTS


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Ruby modules needed for rbot
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Core requirements
      bdb (berkley db) http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/raa-list.rhtml?name=bdb
                       (which requires libdb2 or better, from
                       www.sleepycat.com)
      net/http 1.2+
      net/https        (for debian, this will also need libopenssl-ruby)
      socket
      uri

Plugin requirements
(these are all optional, if you don't have them, the plugins just won't
function)

bash, digg, slashdot, freshmeat, forecast:
      REXML
rss:
      rss
rubyurl:
      shorturl
time:
      tzinfo

External programs needed for rbot
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Plugin requirements
(These are all optional)

host plugin:
      host(1)

spell plugin:
      ispell(1)


Running rbot on win32
=====================

here is bdb:
http://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/binaries/mingw/1.8/ext/bdb-0.5.1-i386-mingw32-1.8.tar.gz

and you need the Win32 MinGW version of Ruby:
http://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/binaries/mingw/1.8/ruby-1.8.4-i386-mingw32.tar.gz