Check that your system or web hosting provider meets these basic requirements, you'll save yourself a lot of time if you don't have something you need.

1. Ability to run CGI scripts using Perl 5.004 or greater
2. UNIX based system (i.e. not Windows)
3. Acceptable use policy allows access to IRC

The latest release is 0.5.9

• Download .tar.gz
• Download .zip

The zip version is provided as a convenience when uploading via windows (the .cgi files are converted into windows line ending format). Neither will work on windows.

CGI:IRC is packaged in Debian and Ubuntu, Gentoo, FreeBSD, NetBSD and many others.

The latest development version of CGI:IRC can be found in git (details below) or viewed using the web interface at github.
git clone git://github.com/dgl/cgiirc.git
(There is also a mirror at git://git.cgiirc.org/cgiirc).