DMDircthe intelligent IRC client

Installing DMDirc on other platforms

Currently, DMDirc has installers for Windows, Linux, and as of DMDirc 0.6, OS X. Users of other platforms will have to manually install DMDirc in order to use it.

First, download the "Java archive" release from the downloads page. This file contains the entire DMDirc application, and all of its associated resources, and can be ran using Java directly without extraction.

Running

To run DMDirc, you just invoke the Java runtime environment with the -jar instruction to tell it the location of the DMDirc jar file. For example, if you are using a unix-like operating system, and the DMDirc jar file is in your home directory, you would use a command like the following:

$ ls DMDirc*.jar
DMDirc-0.5.5.jar
$ java -jar DMDirc-0.5.5.jar

You may wish to create a shortcut to execute Java in this manner, to save time when launching DMDirc in the future.

Advanced: handling irc:// URLs

If your operating system supports it, you can manually register DMDirc as the protocol handler for irc:// URLs. The process for actually registering the handler is extremely platform specific, but the arguments needed when invoking DMDirc are the same on any platform:

$ java -jar DMDirc-0.5.5.jar -e -c irc://server/channel

The -e switch tells DMDirc to reuse an existing instance if possible, and the -c switch tells it to connect to the specified server and channel.