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+BitlBee is an IRC instant messaging gateway licensed under the terms of
+the GPL.  It communicates with the end user via the IRC protocol whilst
+interacting with popular chat networks such as AIM, ICQ, MSN, Yahoo,
+and Jabber. The user's buddies appear as normal IRC users in a channel,
+and conversations use the private message facility of IRC.
+
+After your installation you will need to configure bitlbee. There are
+two ways starting bitlbee: Either as a forked daemon (preferred), or
+the old way of starting it through inetd (mostly deprecated these days).
+
+Bitlbee now includes a standard rc.bitlbee. To have this start on bootup,
+add the following code to /etc/rc.d/rc.local for example
+
+  if [ -x /etc/rc.d/rc.bitlbee ]; then
+    /etc/rc.d/rc.bitlbee start
+  fi
+
+If you choose to use inetd , you need to modify your /etc/inetd.conf
+so bitlbee will be started when /etc/rc.d/rc.inetd is called on bootup.
+Add the line below to your /etc/inetd.conf file:
+
+  6667  stream  tcp nowait  nobody  /usr/sbin/tcpd  /usr/sbin/bitlbee
+
+Restart inetd (/etc/rc.d/rc.inetd restart). All that is left to do now
+is connect your irc client to the localhost.
+
+OTR (Off the record) is not compiled by default. If you want bitlbee
+to compile with OTR capabilities, you'll need to install libotr from
+Slackware and run the script as follows:
+
+  OTR=yes ./bitlbee.SlackBuild
+
+From version 3.2 bitlbee offers some form of skype support, even though
+this will not ever be part of bitlbee proper. Please see the documentation
+in protocols/skype in the source package for information. You can run the
+script as following:
+
+  SKYPE=yes ./bitlbee.SlackBuild
+
+NOTE: The default "bot"/bitlbee daemon is called 'root'. This is not
+the root user on your system. You can easily change it. Register and
+identify yourself first, and then:
+
+  rename root BitlBot (or whatever you want)
+
+NOTE: Since bitlbee now runs as a daemon instead of from inetd, bitlbee
+runs under its own user (UID/GID: 250). If you have older databases
+of bitlbee, you may want to change the permissions on the files in
+/var/lib/bitlbee.