An experimental bot for Jabber chat rooms.

Jabba Desilijic Tiure, or simply Jabba the Hutt. Jabba is of the Hutt race and like most of his species, a gangster. Hutts are a large slug-like race with thick leathery skin, human-like arms, large black cat-like eyes, and a wide mouth. A Hutt may weigh in excess of several tons. The species are hermaphrodites and reproduce by fission. They speak Huttese, a language reminiscent of Quechua. -- Urban Dictionary

jaber-the-hutt requires Python 3.x, and recent versions of libxml2 and libxslt, along with development headers.

To satisfy these dependenices on a Debian system, do:

sudo apt-get install python3 python3-dev libxml2-dev libxslt-dev

To then install jabber-the-hutt itself inside a virtualenv:

wget https://raw.github.com/pypa/virtualenv/master/virtualenv.py
mkdir jabber-the-hutt
cd jabber-the-hutt
python3 virtualenv.py .
bin/pip install jabber-the-hutt

Alternatively, you can install jabber-the-hutt from the source:

git clone https://github.com/dnouri/jabber-the-hutt
cd jabber-the-hutt
wget https://raw.github.com/pypa/virtualenv/master/virtualenv.py
python3 virtualenv.py .
bin/python setup.py develop

Installation creates a jabber-the-hutt console script. This script expects a configuration file as its first argument:

$ bin/jabber-the-hutt hutt.ini

Your configuration file should look something like this:

[jabber-the-hutt]
jid = jabba@jabber.org
room = sleek@conference.jabber.org
room_password = some room password