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NitE

Member

From: Perth, Western Australia

Registered: 2005-09-08

Posts: 6

Irssi Problem

I am a new user to Arch, and have had no problems what-so-ever, until I tried to fire up irssi. I've searched the forums, but can't seem to find anyone else with this problem.

Here's the problem...
When typing:
$ irssi
nothing happens, it just goes back to the bash prompt.

Does anyone know what would cause this? Any help would be appricated.

Extra Info:
* Installed from pacman
* Version 0.8.9-7

Mr Green

Forum Fellow

From: U.K.

Registered: 2003-12-21

Posts: 5,896

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Re: Irssi Problem

odd can you post pacman -Qi irssi please

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NitE

Member

From: Perth, Western Australia

Registered: 2005-09-08

Posts: 6

Re: Irssi Problem

Here we go:

Name           : irssi
Version        : 0.8.9-7
Groups         : None
Packager       : dorphell <dorphell@archlinux.org>
URL            : http://irssi.org/
License        : 
Architecture   : i686
Size           : 2452937
Build Date     : Sun Jul 31 14:44:35 2005 UTC
Install Date   : Fri Sep  9 05:23:43 2005 UTC
Install Script : No
Reason:        : explicitly installed
Provides       : None
Depends On     : glib2 ncurses openssl 
Required By    : None
Conflicts With : None
Description    : Modular text mode IRC client with Perl scripting

phrakture

Arch Overlord

From: behind you

Registered: 2003-10-29

Posts: 7,879

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Re: Irssi Problem

Hmmm, try doing "mv ~/.irssi ~/irssibak" then start irssi - it's possible some configuration could be screwing it up...
If that fails, try running "pacman -S ncurses perl irssi" and say yes - those are the only things and could think of that, if broken, would also break irssi....

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NitE

Member

From: Perth, Western Australia

Registered: 2005-09-08

Posts: 6

Re: Irssi Problem

:oops:

I feel so stupid, I thought I had updated perl and ncurses, but apparently I hadn't. Everything is working, cheers phrakture, you hit the nail right on the head.

phrakture

Arch Overlord

From: behind you

Registered: 2003-10-29

Posts: 7,879

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Re: Irssi Problem

:oops:

I feel so stupid, I thought I had updated perl and ncurses, but apparently I hadn't. Everything is working, cheers phrakture, you hit the nail right on the head.

Heh... it's still kinda odd how they could have broken - though I guess perl causes problems when upgrading from one version to another... alot of people have perl issues....

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