Dreamhost irssi Install Script

Paste this into an ssh session to your dreamhost server

cd
mkdir bin
mkdir lib
mkdir tmp
chmod 777 tmp
chmod 775 bin
chmod 775 lib
export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=$HOME/lib/pkgconfig
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$HOME/lib:/usr/local/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
wget ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/glib/2.13/glib-2.13.6.tar.gz
tar -xvzf glib-2.13.6.tar.gz
rm glib-2.13.6.tar.gz
cd glib-2.13.6
./configure –prefix=$HOME
make
make install
cd ..
rm -rf glib-2.13.6
wget http://irssi.org/files/irssi-0.8.11.tar.gz
tar -xvvzf irssi-0.8.11.tar.gz
rm irssi-0.8.11.tar.gz
cd irssi-0.8.11
./configure –prefix=$HOME
make
make install
cd ..
rm -rf irssi-0.8.11

Then simply add ~/bin to your PATH **hint hint .bash_profile** and then irssi away!