irssi_rstatus is Copyright (C) 2011 Daniel Richman

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The guide at http://sector-5.net/archives/irssi-python-for-irssi-0-8-15/ works, with two modifications to patch memory leaks (channel-object.c, query-object.c).

I've included a patched tarball of the source in github to make it easier.

Download irssi-python, irssi (for the headers). You'll need the python headers available; these will be available in your distribution's package management.

Execute these commands on the server that will be running irssi.

$ sudo aptitude install python-dev libglib2.0-dev
$ mkdir irssi-python-build
$ cd irssi-python-build
$ wget https://github.com/downloads/danielrichman/irssi_rstatus/irssi-python-ac.tar.gz
$ wget http://irssi.org/files/irssi-0.8.15.tar.gz
$ tar xvf irssi-python-ac.tar.gz
$ tar xvf irssi-0.8.15.tar.gz
$ cd irssi-python
$ ./configure --with-irssi=../irssi-0.8.15
$ make -C src constants
$ make

libpython.so will then be at src/.libs/libpython.so

It is then trivial to install irssi-python for your user (i.e., not system wide) like so:

$ mkdir -p ~/.irssi/modules ~/.irssi/scripts/autorun
$ cp src/.libs/libpython.so ~/.irssi/modules/
$ strip ~/.irssi/modules/libpython.so
$ echo "load python" >> ~/.irssi/startup
$ cp src/irssi.py src/irssi_startup.py ~/.irssi/scripts

Finally, add the irssi_rstatus plugin...

$ cd ..
$ sudo aptitude install git-core
$ git clone git://github.com/danielrichman/irssi_rstatus.git
$ cp irssi_rstatus/rstatus.py ~/.irssi/scripts/autorun/

And clean up:

$ cd ..
$ rm -Rf irssi-python-build

The client is experimental/beta. Configuring it is a little ugly at the moment. Don't worry, I'll make it nicer in the future; but if you want it now:

To install:

$ git clone git://github.com/danielrichman/irssi_rstatus.git

Dependencies:

$ sudo aptitude install python-gtk2 python-notify

Configuration:

$ gedit irssi_rstatus/rstatus_notify.py

Scroll to the bottom, and look for:

config = {
    "connect_command": ("ssh", server, "socat", "-T", "700",
                        "unix-client:.irssi/rstatus_sock",
                        "stdin!!stdout"),
    "icons_dir": os.path.realpath(os.path.dirname(__file__))
}

You need to edit connect_command so that when that command is executed, irssi_rstatus.py will be connected on standard in and standard out to ~/.irssi/rstatus_sock on the server running irssi. To do this, I'm using socat installed on the server, and I've got a ssh public key and my ssh config setup so that when I type ssh my_server, it connects to my account at my_server.

And now, to run it:

$ python irssi_rstatus/rstatus_notify.py my_server

You can put the irssi_rstatus folder somewhere where it won't bother you and add python irssi_rstatus/rstatus_notify.py to execute on startup.