Difference between weechat and weechat-curses

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I recently started using weechat IRC client on Ubuntu. After the installation the client can be started by either running weechat or weechat-curses commands. Can someone explain the difference in both?

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 20 '16 at 19:50

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weechat is the more recent version, as described here in the Wiki (in German)

answered Oct 20 '16 at 19:50

lysium

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could you summarise the contents in English? – Zanna Feb 09 '17 at 10:18
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@Zanna The wiki just says which one is the older version. weechat.org has docs in English. – lysium Feb 10 '17 at 11:05

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 21 '19 at 11:42

I've just installed weechat. It's v2.4. By checking /usr/local/bin directory.

$ ls -l /usr/local/bin | grep weechat
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root     1205168 Apr  8 11:49 weechat
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root           7 Apr  8 10:46 weechat-curses -> weechat
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root     1208600 Apr  8 11:49 weechat-headless

It is clear that weechat-curses is a link to weechat. In short, both commands run the same program.

Sébastien Helleu · Answer 3 · 2019-04-22T13:56:48.190

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You should run only "weechat".

"weechat-curses" is the legacy binary name, it is a symbolic link to "weechat" and still present for compatibility reasons.

edited Apr 22 '19 at 13:56

answered Apr 22 '19 at 12:18

Sébastien Helleu

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kd0hdf · Answer 4 · 2016-10-20T20:04:02.493

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It looks like it is the command line version of weechat. The -curses references curses which is a programming library, that is used to create Text User Interfaces (TUI).

You can learn more at:

Edit: It looks like I did not research this well enough, both commands launch a command line app.

edited Oct 20 '16 at 20:04

answered Oct 20 '16 at 19:50

kd0hdf

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so... what is the difference? – Zanna Feb 09 '17 at 10:17

Difference between weechat and weechat-curses

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