Supybot is an IRC bot, an application which can connect to a specific IRC channel and do stuff there. For example, with the Bugzilla plugin, Supybot can report on the channel whenever a new bug is filed, or if somebody mentions “bug 1234” in the conversation, it will print details about bug 1234. Install supybot First, you have to install Supybot. If you are using Arch Linux, get supybot from AUR, otherwise read the INSTALL file.