The following guide will show you how to install the latest Eggdrop on Debian Etch/Lenny (and probably most other Debian/Ubuntu distributions/versions.)

First of all, make sure you are root; we want to install the main eggdrop repository. This will download and install the latest eggdrop version.

root@arkinex:~# apt-get install eggdrop

It is advised that you have a user setup for eggdrop, in this example, my user is ‘eggdrops‘ with the eggdrop directory ‘/home/eggdrops/eggdrop1/‘.

We need to copy a sample configuration file, after extracting it.

root@arkinex:~# gzip -d /usr/share/doc/eggdrop-data/examples/eggdrop.conf.gz
root@arkinex:~# cp /usr/share/doc/eggdrop-data/examples/eggdrop.conf /home/eggdrops/sample.conf
root@arkinex:~# chown eggdrops:eggdrops /home/eggdrops/sample.conf
root@arkinex:~# su eggdrops && cd

If you’ve kept up, we copied the sample configuration and assigned eggdrops user account as the owner and then changed our current terminal to the eggdrops account. Next, we want to copy the sample to our working configuration.

eggdrops@arkinex:~# cp sample.conf eggdrop1/eggdrop1.conf
eggdrops@arkinex:~# cd eggdrop1
eggdrops@arkinex:~# nano eggdrop1.conf

You can now edit all your eggdrop settings and then we will launch the eggdrop for the first time. Note: Leave all the scripts and modules with the /usr/share/ directory prefix alone, we do not need to duplicate any of these files as they are in the shared folder.

To launch the eggdrop:

eggdrops@arkinex:~# eggdrop -m eggdrop1.conf

And your ready to go, it should join the default channel and once you’ve setup users you should not need to specify the -m option again.

Hope you enjoyed this guide. If you have any questions, post them as comments.

We connect to MySQL through TCL using a package called mysqltcl.

Here is how I connect:

# First we require the mysqltcl package. You normally have to install this.
package require mysqltcl
 
set db [::mysql::connect -host localhost -user username -password password -db database];
 
# Then perform an query...
# JOIN
#
bind join - * rec:join
proc rec:join {nick uhost hand chan} {
	global botnick db
	if {$nick == $botnick} { return 0 }
	set result [::mysql::exec $db "INSERT INTO nicks (timestamp,channel,nickname) VALUES(UNIX_TIMESTAMP(),'$chan','$nick')"]
}

As you can see, in my example we store the nickname and channel when someone joins a channel your bot is sitting in. A very useful module indeed.