# Installer ngircd avec Homebrew, apk, apt, dnf, MacPorts, Nix

Consultez les chemins d'installation, exécutables, métadonnées et notes de sécurité de ngircd pour les workflows d'agents IA.

## installation

```sh
sudo av install brew:ngircd
```

Commandes d'installation supplémentaires:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install ngircd
```

  Preuve: local Homebrew formula metadata

- MacPorts (94%):

```sh
sudo port install ngircd
```

  Preuve: MacPorts ports tree: irc/ngircd/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1

### Linux

- apk (92%):

```sh
sudo apk add ngircd
```

  Preuve: Alpine Linux edge package indexes: ngircd from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/main/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz

- Debian apt (92%):

```sh
sudo apt install ngircd
```

  Preuve: Debian stable package indexes: ngircd from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz

- dnf (92%):

```sh
sudo dnf install ngircd
```

  Preuve: Fedora Rawhide package metadata: ngircd from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/07190dc5ae9f35ae73866675fed6d95fe6e8d9fe22c9d7cdf85862cb2ed24a4c-primary.xml.zst

- Nix (92%):

```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#ngircd
```

  Preuve: nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/ng/ngircd/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1

## Faits du paquet

- **Clé du paquet:** brew:ngircd
- **Gestionnaire de paquets:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 28
- **Résumé source:** Lightweight Internet Relay Chat server
- **Page d'accueil:** <https://ngircd.barton.de/>
- **Dernière mise à jour:** 2026-07-12T18:20:05Z
- **Généré:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## exécutables

- ngircd (alias)

## Comportement d'installation

- Bouteille: non disponible

## Version et fraîcheur

- page générée: 2026-08-03
- version du gestionnaire: 28
## Historique du projet et usages

ngIRCd is a lightweight IRC daemon for small, private, in-house, or public IRC networks. It is written from scratch in C, favors portability and a clean configuration file, and does not try to clone every historical quirk of older IRC daemons.

### Historique du projet

Development started in 2001, and the project describes itself as written from scratch rather than based on the original IRCNet daemon. The name expands to next-generation IRC daemon, though the documentation jokes that "lightweight IRC server" would probably have been more accurate.

The project has kept a conservative scope: implement useful IRC commands and semantics that clients actually use, follow relevant standards where practical, and stay easy to build and run across Unix-like systems and Windows environments.

### Historique d'adoption

ngIRCd is niche but durable. Its own news page says it is used in real-world in-house and public IRC networks and included in package repositories of various operating systems. The GitHub repository shows long-lived maintenance, thousands of commits, and release 27 on April 26, 2024.

Its adoption lane is not massive public IRC networks that need every service integration. It is for admins who want a small IRC server for private communities, labs, LANs, embedded-ish setups, or networks where dynamic IP support, IPv6, TLS, PAM, and simple maintenance matter more than feature sprawl.

### Modes d'utilisation

Users install `ngircd`, edit `ngircd.conf`, define server identity, ports, operators, channels, TLS settings, and optional server links, then run it as a small daemon. It can run standalone or join a network of ngIRCd servers across a LAN or the internet.

Package nerds like ngIRCd because it is the IRC server you can explain in one config file. Compared with heavier IRCd stacks, it is attractive for reproducible test networks, local chat infrastructure, and cases where the service should survive without a pile of companion daemons.

### Pourquoi les passionnés de paquets s'y intéressent

ngIRCd is a small-server counterexample to the idea that every network daemon needs a sprawling ecosystem. Its history is valuable mostly because it stayed portable, understandable, and packageable for more than two decades.

### Chronologie

- 2001: ngIRCd development started.
- 2005: Debian packaging discussions already described it as a scratch-built IRC daemon for small or private networks.
- 2024-04-26: ngIRCd 27 was released after more than three years since the previous release, with accumulated fixes and documentation updates.

### Related projects

- IRCNet ircd
- UnrealIRCd
- InspIRCd
- ircd-hybrid

### Sources

- <https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/ngircd>
- <https://github.com/ngircd/ngircd>
- <https://groups.google.com/g/linux.debian.devel.mentors/c/Rfa1cl7QS34>
- <https://ngircd.barton.de/>
- <https://ngircd.barton.de/news.php.en>


## Notes de sécurité

broad file, network, media, or database tool signal.

- **Risque Geiger:** blue / moyen
- broad file, network, media, or database tool signal


## Configuration and credential file locations

These source-backed paths show where this package keeps local settings or durable credentials. Automic Vault can use them as review targets for secret scanning, migration, and command approval.


## Configuration files

- Unix: /usr/local/etc/ngircd.conf
## Autres enregistrements de gestionnaires de paquets

- Debian apt - ngircd - 27-2: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: ngircd from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | lightweight Internet Relay Chat server | https://ngircd.barton.de/
- Nix - ngircd: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/ng/ngircd/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- Ubuntu apt - ngircd - 26.1-2build1: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: ngircd from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | lightweight Internet Relay Chat server | https://ngircd.barton.de/
- apk - ngircd - 28-r0: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: ngircd from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/main/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | Next Generation IRC Daemon | https://ngircd.barton.de/
- apk - ngircd-doc - 28-r0: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: ngircd-doc from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/main/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | Next Generation IRC Daemon (documentation) | https://ngircd.barton.de/
- apk - ngircd-openrc - 28-r0: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: ngircd-openrc from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/main/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | Next Generation IRC Daemon (OpenRC init scripts) | https://ngircd.barton.de/
- dnf - ngircd - 28-2.fc45: normalized package name match | Fedora Rawhide package metadata: ngircd from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/07190dc5ae9f35ae73866675fed6d95fe6e8d9fe22c9d7cdf85862cb2ed24a4c-primary.xml.zst | Next Generation IRC Daemon | http://ngircd.barton.de/
- MacPorts - ngircd: normalized package name match | MacPorts ports tree: irc/ngircd/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1


## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/ngircd.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/ngircd.yml)


## Sources

- pkg.so package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- curated configuration and credential file locations
- curated package history
- pkgdb category and tag curation
- external package-manager database matches
- cross-ecosystem install command graph