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A quick writeup of what I learned installing weechat on a digital ocean droplet - and keeping it running with tmux.
Written on June 29th 2021
Get a Digital Ocean droplet
Set up the Digital Ocean account and a means of payment - the budget for this project is USD 5-7 per month (to keep the droplet running).
Under distributions choose the Ubuntu image - as of writing 20.04 x64
Choose a plan - basic
Choose a cpu option - regular intel
Choose a size - smallest - 1GB and 1 CPU.
Secure the machine - Create a login user to the droplet
To secure the machine and avoid logging in with root I followed this tutorial:
First steps to secure ubuntu server
I didn't enable a firewall - and therefore no need to allow the ssh.
I might want to come back to this later.
The security for this droplet in my setup is mainly coming from using an ssh key.
Install Weechat
To install I followed the instructions on the weechat website
I was using apt command instead of apt-get. You can find a detailed description of the difference here
connect to libera chat
This is well documented in the weechat quickstart.
connect to matrix.org
I followed this description - weechat matrix github
I installed libolm-dev like this:
sudo apt install libolm-dev
It's a cryptographic library needed for matrix.org.
Caveat: It's not quite working yet for me - for some reason I have to reload the script with /script load matrix.py every time I log in to Weechat. If you know what might be the issue here - comments are very much appreciated.
use tmux to keep the session logged in
I am really just scratching the surface here - using it to keep the Weechat session alive when disconnecting.
- command to start:
tmux - to detach:
Ctrl-b d - to reattach:
tmux att
More details can be found here
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