Installing InspIRCd 4 using the Ubuntu package

An official package for Ubuntu is maintained by the InspIRCd Team. You can download this from the releases page.

What systems are supported by this package?

This package can be installed on all x86-64 systems running Ubuntu 22.04 (Jammy Jellyfish) and 24.04 (Noble Numbat).

How do I install this package?

If you've previously installed InspIRCd from the Debian repositories you should start by backing up your config and data directories and removing the existing package.

cp -r /etc/inspircd conf
cp -r /var/run/inspircd data
sudo apt-get purge inspircd

Then, download the .deb package to your server using Wget. If you do not have Wget installed you can install it using sudo apt-get install wget.

# Replace the URL here with the URL you obtained from the releases page.
wget "https://github.com/inspircd/inspircd/releases/download/[VERSION]/inspircd_[VERSION]_amd64.deb"

Once the package has downloaded ensure that the file has not been corrupted during download by running sha256sum and comparing its output to the hash specified on the releases page.

# Replace the filename here with the name of the file you obtained from the releases page.
sha256sum "./inspircd_[VERSION]_amd64.deb"

If the hash matches the one specified on the releases page you can proceed to install the package.

# Replace the filename here with the name of the file you obtained from the releases page.
sudo apt-get install "./inspircd_[VERSION]_amd64.deb"

The package should now be installed and you can proceed to set up your configuration.

Once you have configured your server you can start it by running systemctl start inspircd.service or, if you prefer not to use systemd, by running inspircd.

Where does this package store important files?

Configuration files are stored in /etc/inspircd.

Data files are stored in /var/lib/inspircd.

Log files are stored in /var/log/inspircd.